On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 06:07:01PM +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: > On Saturday 27 May 2006 17:43, Rohan Dhruva wrote: > > > i have a question and i hope anyone can help me. > > > I have a socket 370 mainboard with a VIA C3 "Nehemiah" 1,3 GHz processor. > > > Can i install und run Arch Linux (i686) on this platform? > > > > I dont see why not. Though you can install, and then have a > > installation report of sorts, so we all can benefit from it :) > > They are i586 so Arch won't install, you can test this by trying to boot the > install disk. It most likely won't get past loading the kernel. > > A couple of weeks back I recompiled all the packages and installed them by > booting from an i386 install disk (I think it was debian from memory). It > worked, although I decided against using it. >
C3 "Nehemiah" should be i686 compatible. I use C3 "Ezra" which has no CMOV instruction and definitely will not work with i686 packages. Jürgen
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