[Cialug] Ciacug and general hardware

[James Shoemaker]

Lauren Stole wrote:

> The Ciacug has gotten in more of the nice Compaq servers that Dave W 
> picked up awhile ago not sure how much they want.. Also they got in a 
> bunch of PIII dual processor and 2 gig ram boxes that they are letting 
> go for 300.. Nice Linux boxen.. I know this is a little off topic .. 
> Dave W if you interested email me off list and I'll check into it 
> more.. More on topic is AMD-K62 takes a different arch doesn't it or 
> do you use the i686 kernel I am trying to get a distro for a friend 
> and want to make sure it loads. I know a little naive of me but it has 
> been awhile for the AMDs.

  In debian they have a kernel built for K6 CPU's.  I 686 Kernel would 
probably have issues on a K6, it is for intel PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.

James