On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:39 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > After the recent discussion about arch working well on old hardware, I > decided to dump a suse 10.3 install on an old AMD K6-2/450 and install arch > on it. I downloaded the net install iso i686. I knew if it was truly i686 it > wouldn't install -- and it didn't. > > My question is which Arch download, if any, can install on this old hardware. > (currently a great little fax server, backup DNS/dhcp box and 40G of > storage.) Any help (or the right link) would be appreciated.
Archlinux doesn't support i586 in any way. Not the kernel, not the packages, so you're bound to community projects. One that has recent updates is this one: http://archlinux-i586.org/ I don't know the quality of the packages there, as I don't have any i586 boxes where I would run archlinux on.
