I have a Athon 2200 , and wand to install fedora but I am confused. Should I down load the source or binary ISO's? Correct one would be X86_64? I assume X86_64 means for 486 and up and 64 bit systems correct?

Thanks

get the binary isos and the x86_64 is for 64 bit processors like the amd64

So binary and the 386's okay thanks

You want the i386 binary isos. The x86-64 is only for AMD64 processors, which yours is not.

Then why confuss me and put x86

thanks for the help

you might also consider doing a net install, to save yourself the trouble of cds. it's really easy to do, you install one cd ( which you can get here: ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/mirror/ftp.redha...images/boot.iso ) and when it asks you for a ftp to get the files off of give it this: ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/core/3/i386/os/

the rest is point and click.

its all in binary..... you either are 1 or 0 .......... ( sorry cudnt resist )

Well, x86 would include 80286 CPUs, which Linux does not really support (although you can find ports for it, but the 286 platform lacks the right memory managment hardware)..

So, that is why you will see 386 or 586 types of designations for CPUs. It lets you know the minimum required CPU that the binaries will execute on.