Is i686 dead and gone??

[Beartooth]

	I have a Thinkpad T42 which I haven't used for so long I don't 
remember what's on it. When I try to boot it, it complains that it can't, 
and asks me to use a "kernel appropriate for your CPU."  


	My main purpose is to get it usable again, preferably with Fedora 
27, if that's possible. (I run F27 on all our other machines.)

	I'd prefer to examine it first, if there's a way. If I run a USB 
cable between it and a F27 PC, can I then mount it as if it were a 
storage medium and display the contents??

	Fwiw, it mounted and opened UBCD; but when I chose "CPU Info" 
from UBCD's menu, it flashed up something about "stress" -- and then went 
black.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

On 2018-01-01 14:12, Beartooth wrote:
>  I have a Thinkpad T42 which I haven't used for so long I
> don't
>  remember what's on it. When I try to boot it, it complains that it 
>  can't,
>  and asks me to use a "kernel appropriate for your CPU."
>  
>  
>  	My main purpose is to get it usable again, preferably with Fedora
>  27, if that's possible. (I run F27 on all our other machines.)
>  
>  	I'd prefer to examine it first, if there's a way. If I run a USB
>  cable between it and a F27 PC, can I then mount it as if it were a
>  storage medium and display the contents??
>  
>  	Fwiw, it mounted and opened UBCD; but when I chose "CPU Info"
>  from UBCD's menu, it flashed up something about "stress" -- and then 
>  went
>  black. 
Sorry for asking the obvious
but http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T42 says
you have a Pentium M.

Did you download the i386 iso?

Sincerely,

[Michael Watters]

x86 is an alternative architecture now.  You'll need to download the
proper ISO file to install the OS on 32 bit hardware.

Here's a mirror which contains the proper ISO files.

http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/

On 01/01/2018 02:12 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>  	I have a Thinkpad T42 which I haven't used for so long I
> don't 
>  remember what's on it. When I try to boot it, it complains that it can't, 
>  and asks me to use a "kernel appropriate for your CPU."  
>
>
>  	My main purpose is to get it usable again, preferably with Fedora 
>  27, if that's possible. (I run F27 on all our other machines.)
>
>  	I'd prefer to examine it first, if there's a way. If I run a USB 
>  cable between it and a F27 PC, can I then mount it as if it were a 
>  storage medium and display the contents??
>
>  	Fwiw, it mounted and opened UBCD; but when I chose "CPU Info" 
>  from UBCD's menu, it flashed up something about "stress" -- and then went 
>  black.
>