Got it to install here via the graphical method. by moving /mnt/lib/i686 to /mnt/lib/i686.no On disk 3 and no problems so far.
James On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 12:35, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 10:32, rowland wrote: > > On Monday 07 October 2002 6:04 pm, you wrote: > > this is what I had to do to install 9.0 onto a epia 800 C3 motherboard > > > > do a text install, as packages start to install watch for glibc, when you see > > this, switch to console (alt + F2), type "rm -r /mnt/lib/i686" and press > > return/enter. It should now load normally. you should now switch back with > > alt+F1. Only problem is you don't get to choose which packages to load this > > way but I could not switch to console from graphical installation, is this > > another set of bugs/features? > > You can switch just that I've always found that you have to go to ctrl > alt f1 first.... the alt f2. As for watching an app. click details and > you can see it happen just as in the text install. > > > All this does beg the question, why does a distribution claiming to be i586 > > compatible, have a directory named i686? > > It's part of glibc and if you have a 686 cpu (like a celeron) it does > get used for the kernel. (Even in RH they do this) > > James > > > > > rowland > > > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 07:58, Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy wrote: > > > > It seems that the problem is that glibc package from Mandrake 9.0 has > > > > some libraries optimized for i686 (with the CMOV instruction) in the > > > > directory /lib/i686 and that the Via C3 cpu (which has not that > > > > instruction) is detected as i686. So, the solution is to delete that > > > > directory as soon as possible, when the glibc package is installed, to > > > > avoid programs use those libraries. I can't test this until saturday, so > > > > if anybody else can test it (cc. to my e-mail address please). > > > > Regards. > > > > > > I can try tonight .... can you tell me how you would do this so I can be > > > sure I'm doing it correctly. > > > > > > James > > > > >
