cant install live cd, wont boot on my computer
 

i have an older aptiva with amd k6 500mhz and 4-256mb ram=1gig. i have mandrake 9.1 that i installed from cd's i got from a magazine. it works no problem, now i have tried mint linux, pclinux, debian, vixta and dsl linux, and they all boot to the splash screen asking what linux to run, i hit enter, screen says loading kernal then goes blank and reboots to same screen again over and over. ???

am i doing something wrong?
thanks
chris

By Intel specifications K6 is a i686 CPU. However, gcc compiler used in Linux world assumes an i686 has cmov instruction set. K6 does not have it and (for Linux) falls into i586 class as a result. New distros come built for i686 as minimum.

so the latest distros should run? i just downloaded most of the above within the last 2 months, and i am in the prosses of d/l knoppix as i hear it has the best hardware support, BTW the cd drive is a magispin cd writer/reader, couple people said it might not be a supported drive, but im not home to swap in another to try.

thanks
chris

Only if they are built for i386, i486 or i586. i686 will not boot on this machine.

i got knoppix to run but mouse does not work on this machine, and i dug around and found a ubuntu install cd that was givin out at a computer show many years ago, so im going to try that too, as my german is a lil rusty and and i could not get the setup to change to english in knoppix.

thanks for the info

chris