On Mon, May 23, 2022, 10:53 AM José María Terry Jiménez <j...@tssystems.net> wrote:
> El 23/5/22 a las 16:59, jim.cro...@gmail.com escribió: > > > > so Ive got some old i686 computers, > > electronics recycle day approaches, but before I do that, > > I thought Id try to get them working > > > > 1st one (toshiba satellite core2 laptop) threw a hard-drive, > > clunking noises, then finally falls back to pxe-boot. > > > > I put fedora-30-live on a usb (last one with i686 support) > > but booting it, I get a 2-line error: > > > > This kernel requires x86-64, but only detected i686 > > unable to boot - ... > > > > I know f30 supports i686 - I have 1 old desktop still running it. > > > > next is hp pavilion g7 > > pressing power gives brief spin-up of fans, nothing else. > > f2, f10, esc during boot dont help, > > screen brightness or vga monitor dont help either > > I pulled hard drive and memory to force BIOS / POST > > to do something different, NO CHANGE. > > Any suggestions? > > > > but at least I have a new/old hard-drive for the toshiba. > > > > I also have a dell pentium2-233, > > running knoppix with a 2.6.19 kernel, > > its reluctant to do anything (aptitude is trying forever) > > I think its too old to have a bios that can usb boot > > > > I have used fedora-live-usb to rescue machines > > in the past, but Im running out of options. > > I would welcome other distro suggestions for tired old hardware > > > > thanks > > > Hello > > Last release for i686 (i386) is Fedora 25. I've checked the repo. Here > are the downloads. Note that 26 and following only is available in x86_64 > > Yes I'll accept that I have an old 686 desktop thats still running F30, when they finally abandoned the updates. Its running a 5.16-rc4 kernel now :-) video resolution on distro kernel dropped to VGA quality at some point, I had to do something ;-) I ended up putting Bodhi Linux on the toshiba laptop cuz it targets low-mem, low-disk, slow-cpu machines, like these old machines I have lying around. >
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