Pentium 4 Games
Xena Donovan
I have got an old pentium 4 laptop from my sister. She wants to use it as an basic machine for webbrowsing (just reading stuff and so on) and doing text editing stuff. The problem is that the pentium 4 only has 32bit mode.
I followed the tutorial to install grub with bios support, which does work.
The problem that i have is that my PC is of course a 64bit machine, I can't get any livedisk running on this laptop so i decided to do it from my PC. But executing pacstrap on my mounted drive it just installs 64 bit versions.
Good to see the community seemingly has plans for i686 repos. @OP - Maybe it's worth your installing Arch after-all. Scope and quality of package maintenance remains to be established though. The alternative is another distro/package manager as previously stated.
Installing arch for someone else who doesn't know how to maintain it is a great disservice. Installing an unsupported community offshoot of arch with a dubious (hopeful perhaps, but still dubious) future is worse than just a great disservice.
Arch may be what you are most familiar with, but the short term courtesy you think you are doing your sister will backfire leaving her with a worthless system and with you looking like a tit. If you are competant enough to install and run arch, you can certainly take an hour or so to learn enough about another distro that would serve your sister much better.
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