Fedora 18 no go on Pentium III

Tue Jan 15 13:38:19 UTC 2013

2013/1/15 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf at omen.com>

> I have been unable to install 32 bit Fedora 18 RC4 on an Abit VH6.
> The Pentium III is the fourth CPU in the "686" series.
> The machine has 1.5G ram and runs a number of op systems.
> It loads and runs Fedora 16, SCO Unix, etc..
>
> A Spherical Cow DVD install never gets past checking the DVD.
> A pxeboot install insists on reading the DVD.
> The exact same 32b pxeboot install works fine on a 64 bit machine.
>

Seems to be a problem specific to that system. I'm running f18 on thinkpad
x40 which definitely is not an P4. (probably Centrino/ P3 1.2 GHz).
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