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> I have tried without success to install onto a very old box, IBM/Cyrix cpu. > It really isn't worth fighting too much, but I'd like to have one more go > at it. > > All I have got, so far, is as far as the initial screen, F1, and first try, > typed 'linux nopentium noapic'. This brought just a blank screen. > > I then tried to run one of the alternative kernels(?), but putting alt1 > into the same statement, but this was obviously wrong, because just before > the blank screen I saw that it was loading the alt0 kernel. > > a) What is the correct syntax for trying the alternatives? > b) Is there anything else worth trying - before I kick the box out? <g> > > Anne I have this nagging suspicion that the IBM/Cyrix chips you speak of may not be supported under mandrake due to not being fully i586 compatible (the architecture mandrake is built/compiled for) Mark. - -- Mark Watts Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key available on request. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ZL1CBn4EFUVUIO0RAkFfAJ94XCnj/NLWqhfBBvvsdgv4nz/TMACfTbZL 4gpj65sb1OPiskW50mtaQ4Y= =ad65 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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