RE: [expert] 486 question

[George Jones (IT)]

Title: 486 question

BAH! I was really hoping I could do it without resorting to installing RH7.1. I have it installed on one of my pc's already and it runs terribly slow compared to MDK7.2 on my main pc.

 

George E. Jones IV
Store Systems Support
Borders Group Inc.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 3:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] 486 question

Think you are out of luck I am afraid... they won't install...

 

you could load mdk 7 and then use it to compile all the src rpm's from 7.2 (a long job I am afraid) to i486, and assuming that glibc and so on are compatable, (they probably are) then you would eventually have a total 486 version of 7.2....

 

you are better of to get redhat 7.1 last time I checked, they are still compiling for i386... so that should run on your 486 just fine

 

rgds

 

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Jones (IT)
Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2001 3:09 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [expert] 486 question

Got a little dillema... I have a 486 that I'd like to load LM 7.2 on. Problem is that  Mandrake has no 486 support save the lonely 7.0 cd. Can I install the normal 586 distro on my 486 and recompile the kernel with 486 support or am I out of luck?

(BTW, it's a 486/66 w/100MB ram, 1.7GB hd, 12x CDROM, and a pair of 3Com ISA nics)

George E. Jones IV
Store Systems Support
Borders Group Inc.