New install

Jonathan Beatty jonathan.beatty at gallaudet.edu
Sat Sep 18 00:46:04 UTC 2010


That chip isn't technically i686 and you'll need to use a 386 distro
with it, as far as I know.

On 9/17/10, Rod McCown <rodmccown at aircanopy.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 	I just finished with a RedHat class and am trying to run the "Fedora
> 13 desktop" on the only thing that I have left in my office that I can get
> 512 MB of RAM on. The disk will boot my laptop, but unfortunately it is a
> company laptop and I cannot put anything else on it. But I know that the CD
> works. I just tried on a AMD K6-2 500Mhz machine and it says this is the
> wrong architecture. It says:
>
> This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: cmov
> Unable to boot.    Please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.
>
> Is this CPU just too old for the version I'm using?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rod McCown ><>
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> rodmccown at aircanopy.net
>
> "UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
>
>


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