Used to run Xandros 3.0 on another computer. Now upgraded to Intel
dual core with Foxconn mobo and Xandros hangs on install. Tried to
install the trial version of Xandros - no better luck. The live
PCLinuxOS CD will not run. Does anyone know if there is a problem
loading Linux distros on a dual core system? The only distro that
runs a live CD that I have found is Simply Mepis, but there seems to
be a lot of unfavorable reviews for that one.

chuckiebrown@example.com wrote:
> Used to run Xandros 3.0 on another computer. Now upgraded to Intel
> dual core with Foxconn mobo and Xandros hangs on install. Tried to
> install the trial version of Xandros - no better luck. The live
> PCLinuxOS CD will not run. Does anyone know if there is a problem
> loading Linux distros on a dual core system? The only distro that
> runs a live CD that I have found is Simply Mepis, but there seems to
> be a lot of unfavorable reviews for that one.

Much depends on what dual core cpu from intel you have, IA64 or EM64T, if you
have an IA64 then you have a lot less options to pick from, while the EMT64T
will work with i386, i486, i586, i686 and AMD64 distros.

Sometimes you may have to turn off some features in the kernel, even if you
don't use RedHat, thise options works the same way
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...-bootopts.html

Always try to have as recent kernel as possible, you can find more out about
which kernel is used in which distribution by visiting www.distrowatch.com

With the huge amount of information we have got, it's not possible to give any
better answer.

--

//Aho

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:47:58 +0100, "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
wrote:

>chuckiebrown@example.com wrote:
>> Used to run Xandros 3.0 on another computer. Now upgraded to Intel
>> dual core with Foxconn mobo and Xandros hangs on install. Tried to
>> install the trial version of Xandros - no better luck. The live
>> PCLinuxOS CD will not run. Does anyone know if there is a problem
>> loading Linux distros on a dual core system? The only distro that
>> runs a live CD that I have found is Simply Mepis, but there seems to
>> be a lot of unfavorable reviews for that one.
>
>Much depends on what dual core cpu from intel you have, IA64 or EM64T, if you
>have an IA64 then you have a lot less options to pick from, while the EMT64T
>will work with i386, i486, i586, i686 and AMD64 distros.
>
>Sometimes you may have to turn off some features in the kernel, even if you
>don't use RedHat, thise options works the same way
>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...-bootopts.html
>
>Always try to have as recent kernel as possible, you can find more out about
>which kernel is used in which distribution by visiting www.distrowatch.com
>
>With the huge amount of information we have got, it's not possible to give any
>better answer.

Thanks for that information. I am not too knowledgable about
computer internals - but does D945 look like a promising CPU number?

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:56:00 +0000, chuckiebrown wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:47:58 +0100, "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
> wrote:
>
>>chuckiebrown@example.com wrote:
>>> Used to run Xandros 3.0 on another computer. Now upgraded to Intel
>>> dual core with Foxconn mobo and Xandros hangs on install. Tried to
>>> install the trial version of Xandros - no better luck. The live
>>> PCLinuxOS CD will not run. Does anyone know if there is a problem
>>> loading Linux distros on a dual core system? The only distro that
>>> runs a live CD that I have found is Simply Mepis, but there seems to
>>> be a lot of unfavorable reviews for that one.
>>
>>Much depends on what dual core cpu from intel you have, IA64 or EM64T,
>>if you have an IA64 then you have a lot less options to pick from, while
>>the EMT64T will work with i386, i486, i586, i686 and AMD64 distros.
[...]
>>With the huge amount of information we have got, it's not possible to
>>give any better answer.
>
> Thanks for that information. I am not too knowledgable about computer
> internals - but does D945 look like a promising CPU number?

Probably one of these:

http://processorfinder.intel.com/det...px?sSpec=SL9QB
http://processorfinder.intel.com/det...px?sSpec=SL9QQ

Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
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