Pentium 4 (x686) dvd install

[rod1916]

I am a newbie to Amahi, so am posting in the newbie section. To set the table, I have been a WHS user since it's early beta days and am looking at options.

I have an old server sitting around which is a Pentium 4 system with 4-250 gb hard drives and 1gb of RAM. I figure that should be sufficient to give this thing a trial.

I noticed that it is stronly discouraged to use the LIVE install method, but there doesn't seem to be a DVD download for Fedora 12 that will run on x686. As I am not a Linux expert (my areas of expertise lie in Microsoft and old Netware), does anyone have thoughts on how I can get around this?? I would rather not get another system just for a trial....

thanks,

rod.

[ccondrup]

I am pretty sure any regular i386 release will work. The newer x86's are all backwards compatible, so when a download is tagged as i386 it means it will run on i686, i486 etc all the way back to i386. As for the live releases being tagged i686, here's my guess: They drop support for i386+i486 to make the ISO lower file size, and it also lets them optimize for the newer features i686 introduced. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.

I have just installed Fedora 12+Amahi on my P4 cpu and it's running just fine (List of P4 cpu's). I used the F12 i386 install dvd which is listed among the others here: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org

[rod1916]

Thanks for the thoughts on using the 386 version. I hadn't downloaded it due to the size, but will do so and give it a shot.

rod.