AFAIK, ubuntu x86-32 is in fact i386 (unless they changed it recently). For debian, try this http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/
2009/5/19 Ashar Iqbal <[email protected]>: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: RIPEMD160 >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:35:05PM +0500, Ashar Iqbal wrote: >>>I have got a laptop with a VIA C3 cpu. This needs i386 based software. >>>Any suggestions as to how to install / run Sugar on this? >>> >>>I got Fedora 10 installed, but get an error on starting X windows. >>> >>>The only distro I got to work with a GUI on the machine is Mandrake >>>10... >> >> 1) You need a Linux kernel that is *not* optimized for 686. Some >> distros call it "386" and some call it "486". >> >> 2) You need an xorg graphics driver supported by your graphics card. >> It is probably named unichrome or openchrome. You can also try the vesa >> driver. >> >> 3) You then need Sugar. Either preinstalled, prepackaged or compiled >> yourself. >> >> Sugar comes preinstalled on the SoaS distribution which is based on >> Fedora - but then you might have problems with the Linux kernel being >> too optimized or your graphics driver missing. >> >> Sugar packages are available for some distros - of varying quality. >> >> If you want to build yourself, you might consider doing it on a faster >> x86 machine and copy it over afterwards. >> >> >> Good luck! >> >> >> - Jonas >> >> Packaging Sugar for Debian, which has 486 kernel and openchrome driver, >> but Sugar is not currently up-to-date. >> > > If you are recommending Debian, then please let me have a pointer at > what to download. How about Ubuntu (since that is a Debian derivative) > - would this work ? > > Ashar > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
