[ILUG] Problem installing Linux on Via C3 Processor

[Andrew McCarthy]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:36:49AM +0100, Jaqian wrote:
> Hi
> I'm having terrible trouble installing any distro on my laptop other than
> the now defunct Freespire. I've come to the conclusion this is down to my
> laptops processor Via C3 (Nehemiah). I'd like to install Kubuntu on my
> laptop but this doesn't seem possible at the moment. Any suggestions on how
> I might work around this?
> 
> Here are  my cpu's details if it makes sense to anyone...

I have a similar one, a Via Samuel 2, and the best I ever got to work
was a Debian 486 kernel, certainly not a 686 one.

Andrew