I acquired an old EPIA box. I'm not positive on the specs.. but I belive it is an old ~800 Mhz CPU with 128 MB RAM. I was going to put linux on it to mess around with. Some time ago I attempted to install FC3, it installed fine but then would lock up when in the GUI after about 30 seconds after starting it up; and lock up when in the console when the screen turned black after not using it for some time. When this happened I didn't have as much time as I needed to debug it..soo its been sitting here. I am wantting to get it running, j/w if anyone has any suggestions for a distro, or some tuning that I need to do for these older VIA CPUs. I have seen that many ppl use these mini-itx boards but not sure if one has to do a lot to get it running. Sorry for long post, and thanks in advance.

-matt

Hello,
Most important is that the VIA CPUs are i586 compatible,
not i686. The distribution must support i586 target. I am running
parts of Fedora Core 3 on an EPIA-CL without much problems
("parts of" = own kernel, own initrd+many libs and programs from
FC3). Maybe you can find more info in the viaarena forum;
http://forums.viaarena.com/categories.aspx?catid=28
Regards,
L Ekman

I have exactly the same problems. Did you find any solutions?

checking the via link now