[svlug] Which Linux Distribution for AMD K6-2 (MB: PA 2013)

[James Huang]

>From: Deirdre Saoirse <deirdre at deirdre.net>
>
>>James> Just bought an AMD K6-2/300 and installed on a motherboard (PA
>>James> 2013), clock speed 100MHz.
>>James> Tried installing Slackware 3.2 (kernel 2.0.29) with no luck.
>
>This is a pretty old distribution and there may be timing issues that 
were
>since fixed (particularly with a kernel that old). I use a K6-2 on 
RedHat
>(5.1+) with no difficulties.
>
>The other question I have is simple: do you have 100MHz-capable RAM?
>That can cause a lot of subtle problems.
>
Yes I do. Thanks for pointing out.
James

>--
>_Deirdre    http://www.deirdre.net
>"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what
> you put into it." -- Tom Lehrer, quoting Hen3ry
>


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