VIA C3 667MHz.

Gentoopc · Apprentice Joined: 25 Dec 2017 Posts: 296

Hey. Help run the minimum cd life on a motherboard with a VIA C3 667MHz processor. everything just hangs. loading does not go.
What do we have to do?

Muso · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:10 pm Post subject:

How much ram does that machine have?
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Keruskerfuerst · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:12 pm Post subject:

What version of live CD do you use ? x86 or x86-64 ?

Muso · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:13 pm Post subject:

Jaglover · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:14 pm Post subject:

If I remember correctly this CPU lacks cmov instruction. This is something GCC expects an i686 to have. Meaning it will require i486 stage tarball. Also, you need to boot a distro made for 486.
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Gentoopc · Apprentice Joined: 25 Dec 2017 Posts: 296

yes guys, you're right this is a 32 bit processor. operative memory 512.
I downloaded live cd for old processors.
there really is such a problem. CMOV.

I do not know how to solve it. i486 does not work /
I need help I would just boot from live

Gentoopc · Apprentice Joined: 25 Dec 2017 Posts: 296

I will say more. after a long google I was able to find an installer for i386 /

I can not boot. live cd for i386

does not work.

what to do?

Maitreya · Guru Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 441

What does not work?
What does it say?
We can not guess from here, what's wrong.

Gentoopc · Apprentice Joined: 25 Dec 2017 Posts: 296

comes to boot:

I can not choose anything. just doesn't react to anything.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:59 pm Post subject:

Gentoopc,

There is a bug in the i486 liveCD. It still expects the CMOV insluction.
With only 512MB of RAM, you can run Gentoo there but not build it.

What do you intend to run?

What other system do you have to build on?
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Gentoopc · Apprentice Joined: 25 Dec 2017 Posts: 296

board without linux. I want it to be Linux. let at least on live cd. feel sorry for her. so it was possible to have fun for fun. not for work.

give advice what to install

Keruskerfuerst · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:36 pm Post subject:

You can also try to run a binary distro.

Have a look at www.distrowatch.com.

Jaglover · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:07 pm Post subject:

Search for i586.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:12 pm Post subject:

Gentoopc,

You can run linux, you can run Gentoo on that system.
Building Gentoo takes a lot more resources than running it, so if you build your Gentoo elsewhere, you can run it on a VIA C3 with 512Mb RAM.
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Gentoopc · Apprentice Joined: 25 Dec 2017 Posts: 296

ok all thanks