Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 01:28:34 +0000 | From | Michael Meding <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Linux running on an AMD Duron-700Mhz |
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Hi there,
redhat 6.2 will (should) install on this system. Maybe you have to use the upgraded driver / update disk and maybe you have to use text install. However, the installed kernel will fail during boot because it tries to disable the cpuid serial number on your system (of course there isn't one). The 2.2.14BOOT kernels supplied with the system should work, however I didn't found a way to fire them up after installing due to the fact that they are not configured in lilo.
After installing I used a SUSE cd to boot the installed system with the kernel supplied on the cd by suse ;-). That worked. You then just have to recompile the kernel without the cpuid serial disable. That worked.
Maybe Mandrake suffers from the same "bug" that it tries to disable the serial :-). I do not have personal experience with this distro.
No problems whatsoever made debian potato 2.2. Fairly easy install (text based). Just tested this distro as of now a couple of minutes. Suse will work also I guess (since the boot cd worked).
> I know that this is a fairly "recent" system and as such the hardware > support in the kernels distributed with the distros aren't necessarily up > to date. Wanted to find out from others on this list who are running > Durons what distro they're running so that I can try to get this machine up > and going again. Please reply off-list to "graham@howlingfrog.com".
System here is Duron on MSI-6330 KT7PRO with Adaptec AHA-2940UW and Matrox G400.
Greetings
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