Jürgen Hötzel wrote: > 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
i had arch running on a AMD Geode. just give it a shot :) Matthias _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
