Hi everyone!
I might not write it at the right place, but here is my question:
I bought on EBay a Compaq TC1000 convertible tablet pc at a low price. It has a Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 1ghz CPU and I installed +-360mb of ram on it. The trouble is that this CPU emulates a 586 cpu only... ...and most modern distros are 686 and up...
I tried Mageia and even if it is supposed to be 586, it causes kernel panic. I also tried Debian 7.2 and it works at least partly, but as in the Debian way of doing things, it asks me to go online to fetch the driver I'd need to go online... Grrr!
Does someone here know of a good distro to use (or that actually boots) on a 586 CPU?
Thank you in advance! -Alexandre
On 10/26/2013 02:54 PM, Alexandre Couture wrote:
I also tried Debian 7.2 and it works at least partly, but as in the Debian way of doing things, it asks me to go online to fetch the driver I'd need to go online... Grrr!
If Debian works OK, get the live disk with nonfree drivers, and you should be good to go:
http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/stable+nonfree/i386/iso-hybrid/
On Saturday 26 October 2013 05:54:27 pm Alexandre Couture wrote:
I bought on EBay a Compaq TC1000 convertible tablet pc at a low price. It has a Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 1ghz CPU and I installed +-360mb of ram on it. The trouble is that this CPU emulates a 586 cpu only... ...and most modern distros are 686 and up...
Does someone here know of a good distro to use (or that actually boots) on a 586 CPU?
Alexandre,
I can't speak from personal experience, but some resources you might want to look at:
Distrowatch allows you to search for distros by architecture, etc: http://distrowatch.com/search.php
And here is an oldish web page about "Linux on Laptops and Notebooks with TransMeta CPU (Crusoe, Efficeon)", with some links to attempts to install on a TC1000: http://tuxmobil.org/cpu_transmeta.html
Lastly, how about Puppy?
Best regards,
Andy
Does someone here know of a good distro to use (or that actually boots) on a 586 CPU?
Alexandre,
I can't speak from personal experience, but some resources you might want to look at:
Distrowatch allows you to search for distros by architecture, etc: http://distrowatch.com/search.php
And here is an oldish web page about "Linux on Laptops and Notebooks with TransMeta CPU (Crusoe, Efficeon)", with some links to attempts to install on a TC1000: http://tuxmobil.org/cpu_transmeta.html
Lastly, how about Puppy?
Yes, that's true! Puppy is great on older computers! Good idea!
Best regards,
Andy
Thank you Dan for the Debian link!
-Alexandre
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