[TriLUG] Linux distro for old via c3 box?

[Christopher Blackmon]

That's what I ended up doing... I was actually downloading the .iso for Debian as I posted the question,
but I didn't figure it'd work... but it did.  :-)

thanks for the help folks,
Christopher.



________________________________
 From: Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
To: trilug at trilug.org 
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linux distro for old via c3 box?
 
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:25:15 -0700 (PDT), Christopher Blackmon said:
> I've got an old box I'd like to install Linux on.. but current
> versions (ie. cd downloads) of Ubuntu/Lubuntu and Fedora "requires
> the following features not present on the CPU: cx8 cmov"
> 
> I read that it was because the new kernels were compiled in i686
> machines that had more features than the c3 has.
> 
> Any suggestions on a distro that would work?

I shoehorned modern Debian + Xfce4 onto a box with a 500mhz processor
and 128 RAM.

I did it by network-installing Debian, just the core. Then, at the
prompt, I did this:

apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies

HTH

SteveT

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