Bug 36541 – Which Live CD to use for CELERON?

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Marc THABAUD 2003-12-26 11:34:38 UTC]

The question is the same for the DURON (AMD)
Let's take the 1.4 release.
On the live CD choice, among the x86 family, there are various kinds of choices: 
Athlon, basic, i686, pentium3, pentium4 and X86.
Celeron and Duron are not mentioned.
For a celeron 1.7 GHz I have choosen the pentium 4 live CD but some problems happened, among which the fact that openoffice which do not want to completeky compile (kde accepted and others). It was reported to me that it could come from my live CD choice.

The command cat /proc/cpuinfo gives the following for the celeron and a little discussion in Gentoo forum gave me the values in parenthesis for a pentium 4:


processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 1 [2]
model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz [Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz]
stepping        : 3 [4]
cpu MHz         : 1703.966 [2000.531]
cache size      : 8 KB [512]
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips        : 3394.76 [3948.54]

Does the step number indicates the family to adopt? 4 for p4 and 3 for p3, in this case I should have taken the live cd for p3?

I think that this kind of information should be indicated clearly in the installation guide and / or download guide.

Thanks for your help
Marc

[Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2004-01-20 15:42:46 UTC]

you safe with the x86 livecd for all intel/amd cpus