On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Daniel Hedlund <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 20:26, Matt McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Question- >> >> Is there a particular reason you are trying to install Fedora 9, which is >> wayyyyy beyond End Of Life (maybe I missed something from earlier, sorry)? >> Fedora is on 14 now. They support N-1 releases. > > A couple months ago, Michael was trying to install Fedora 9 and the > reason cited at the time was newer versions of Fedora did not support > his i586-based CPU. It does appear, however, that Fedora 11 might > support i586. i686 and above was started with Fedora 12: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support > > >> My point is, they probably did fix the installer, with F10 or a patch to F9, >> or something, but that too is now way out of date. > > I agree. He might have better luck trying Fedora 11...however... > > I would never recommend Fedora 11, or even Fedora 9 as they are both > no longer supported; no security updates are being released for these > versions of the distro. He might have better luck trying to find out > what version of CentOS will install on i586 and see if that's still > supported...
CentOS 5 states it support i586 but there was a recent thread complaining about this support. It cannot be installed on anything less than i686. > > ...or failing that, switch to another distribution that does still > support his architecture (Debian?) or give in and upgrade to newer > hardware. > > Michael, if you are unfamiliar with setting up and working with a > distro other than Fedora, it might be worth stopping by the clinic on > the 16th for some hands on support. > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
