Trouble installing Linux on circa-1999 Compaq Presario

[edwardp-KK0ffGbhmjU at public.gmane.org]

> jbk wrote:
>
>> Chris O'Connell wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm curious, have you run any type of diagnostic utility on the hard
>>>> disk drive?
>>>>
>> Would this computer be considered i586 based? I know that Fedora no
>> longer issues distributions that support that hardware.
>>
>> Jim KR

The AMD Athlon installed is i686 based.


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