[PLUG] Disto question

[Michael M.]

Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
> I downloaded Archie after Ken's suggestions on how to use wget.  Burned 
> a CD.  Tried to run live on my old K6II 350.
> I watched it boot, start to load Archie, a few dots across the screen, 
> and it reset my machine.  I watched this twice before I stopped the 
> process.
> I must need to go back and reread the article on distros and old machines.

Is a K6II considered i686?  I don't know the older AMD classifications, 
I just know that anything Pentium 3 or greater is i686.  Arch Linux is 
an i686-optimized distro.  There's a port for i586, but I don't know how 
far along it is.

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Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
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dream." --S. Jackson