I have no preference as to distro - its just that most distros are now 686 whereas the C3 is not compatible with that. It has to be 386.
I will try Sugar on a stick (except it has to be on a CD as the bios does not support boot from USB). Ashar On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:45 PM, David Van Assche <dvanass...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or if its really Mandriva (what used to be called mandrake) that you want to > run, I believe there are sugar packages for that distro, you might have to > search the net a bit. I know Caixa Magica, which is based on Mandriva has > been quite worked on to work for many netbooks including the classmate set > of netbooks. But start with Sugar on a stick, if it doesn't load, let us > know and we can help you to make Sugar work on your hardware and > distribution. > > kind regards, > David (Nubae) Van Assche > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I would try running Sugar on a Stick as a means of debugging. >> >> -walter >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Ashar Iqbal <s.ashar.iq...@gmail.com> >> 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... >> > >> > Ashar >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep