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what would a pentium2 translate into for linux archetectures? would it be an i586 or what?

if no one knows i would really appreciate it, that or telling me where i can go to find out.. thanks

PII would be an i686

-Joey

Dont quote me on this:

286, 386, 386DX / MMX, Pentium - 486, P2 - 586

so say its an i586 or higher, would an i586 arch work on the machine?

well a 586 arch will work on a 586, but not less.

whoa, i think i just totally confused myself. i have mandrake 8.2 which is i586, and my friend wants a copy of it, and his machine is a pentium 2, so it should work??

im not sure what processor my machine has, but i know i still havent gotten mandrake to work on it, but thats a totally different issue.....

My mother has a 400MHz P2 with Mandrake 9.2 - yes it will work :-)

383= i386
486= i486
K6\K6II = i585
Pentium= i686

-Joey

383? Are you sure about that? I have a chip right here and its a i386DX...

i just looked, and the processor in my laptop (the one i cant get linux to work on) is (Dixon 300 Processor) AGP, so what would that be?

300MHz? I think Pentiums went from 33MHz to 266MHz, though it might have been 300MHz. The equivalent then is probably too low to run linux.

that would explain why i cant get it to install all the way, and if i do it wont boot up properlly, or all the way...

Sheesh! Nobody knows 80xxx line of INTEL processors. :rolleyes:

8086 = 86 (8 bit)
80186 = 186 (8 bit)
80286 = 286 (16 bit)
80386 = 386SX (32 bit), 386DX (32 bit), 386DCL (32 bit)
80486 = 486SX (32 bit), 486DX (32 bit), 486DX2-66 (32 bit), 486DX2-80 (32 bit), 486DX4-100 (32 bit), 486DX4-120 (32 bit)
80586 = Pentium (32 bit), Pentium MMX (32 bit), Cyrix M1 (32 bit), Cyrix M2 (32 bit), Cyrix III (32 bit), AMD K5 (32 bit), AMD K6 (32 bit)

80686 = Pentium Pro (32 bit), Pentium II (32 bit), Pentium III (32 bit), Athlon (32 bit), Athlon 64 (32/64 bit), Athlon FX-51 (32/64 bit), Opteron (32/64 bit)
80786 = Pentium 4 (32 bit)

Pentium did not start at 33 MHz. They started at 60 MHz and ended at 233 MHz. As you can see above if you compiled the kernel for P4 it will not work to well with previous processor models. If you compiled it for a 486 anything after it will work but anyting before 486 will not work.

I have never heard of a Dixon processor. It must be a remake of a processor model.

For more information about the intel processors you can either go to intels site or go to sandpile.org

Sandpile = http://www.sandpile.org