[Gllug] Install problems again

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:13:13AM +0000, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> Celerons are cut-down pentium IIIs, so any x86 distro will work.
> (Pentium III is i686)
> 
> In fact, it may be possible that some of the newer ones are cut-down P4s.
> Not sure if cut-down PIIs were called celeron too, but either way, they're
> all i686 (and the minimum 32bit intel for some distros is i586 AFAIC. Most
> compile for i386, but some, like mandrake compile and optimise for 586)

Even still, it should still work on 386 and up since the invalid opcodes
will trigger a trap which the kernel can catch and emulate the opcode (slow
yes, but it works).

Pete

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