[SOLVED] - Minimum Hardware Requirements ??

lkraemer · 2012-02-22 13:19:46

I've searched the forum and used Google to search for the Minimum Hardware requirements for Arch Linux (archlinux-2011.08.19-core-i686).

References in the searches state that the information is in the Install Guide, but I can't locate it in there. I do see the reference to the CPU type.
Some references in the searches state 128M RAM and others state 192M? Has this been updated for the latest Version? Or, has this information
been moved or deleted from the Install Guide/Wiki? If so, where is it located? Please help me find the Current Hardware Specifications.

Thanks.

Larry

Last edited by lkraemer (2012-02-22 13:41:56)

DSpider · 2012-02-22 13:35:05

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … hitectures
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … _installer

"The memory requirement for a basic install is 64MB of RAM."

After that, you're looking at Xfce, GNOME, KDE, etc requirements (if you plan on using X).

lkraemer · 2012-02-22 13:41:18

DSpider,
Thanks. I don't know how many times I've read through that Document, but I missed the TIP with that information.

Larry

DSpider · 2012-02-22 14:52:48

"A Pentium Pro, Pentium II or AMD Athlon (K7) processor or higher is required. (technically, cpu's without the cmov instruction such as AMD K6 and via C3 are also i686, but we use gcc and it uses cmov instructions)."

# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags

If there's a "cmov" in there it should be fine.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/5807/wha … nstruction
Ubuntu dropped support for it with the 10.10 release (2010).

Arch Linux

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