Re: Fedora 6 is not able to install in PIII, 256MB SD RAM, 1.3GHz

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 11:41 -0800, Norm wrote:
James Wilkinson wrote:
Norm wrote:


I have not been able to determine what vintage the processor in my old
box is but with a 735 clock speed we can assume it is old.


With a 733(ish) processor speed, it was either a Pentium III on a 133
MHz motherboard or a Celeron on a 66 MHz motherboard. You can check by
running
cat /proc/cpuinfo
The 733 MHz Pentium III was released in autumn 1999, the 733 Celeron in
autumn 2000.

If I remember correctly, the 733 MHz Pentium III would have become
obsolete in mid 2001, and the Celeron maybe six months later.

Hope this helps,

James.


Thanks James, before I emailed the list I checked cpuinfo, the
information is not as clear as I had hoped. My guess is I am running
close to the absolute usable minimum hardware set up which is older than
he one in question and the issues involved are more than a generic P3
FC6 issue below is the information from my cpuinfo file. I suspect that
the box has its last FC upgrade and is nearing the end of its usable
life as a test box (I might be able to extend its life a bnit if I can
find some more RAM but the box is not worth spending any money on), even
distros like Ubuntu don't run well on it, but at the price I paid for it
I can't complain.

processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : VIA Ezra
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 735.020
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow up
bogomips : 1470.81

Here is what I have and I am running FC6.
[lesh@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 467.737
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr up
bogomips : 936.11

This was a straight install of the i386, later I upgraded the kernel
with instructions from this mailing list to the 686version. Not too
much difference in performance. My disk is pretty small (<30G) and
everything fits including quite large user file space (>20G mostly text
and photos).

Regards,
Les H

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