Thanks, but I did read the warning. However, I also read on various
newsgroups that several people had the 'Pentium enhanced' version running on
486's. So I thought I'd give it a try.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:59 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [newbie] Trial (installation) by fire!
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Bill Traynor wrote:
> > Here's what I have:
> > old 486DX2/66 with 20MB RAM, AMI BIOS circa 08/08/1994
> >
> > Having just purchased the hard drive, I installed it, inserted a Linux
> > Mandrake 6 boot disk and rebooted.
You should have read the hardware requirements before trying to install
it.
The normal version of Mandrake 6 will run only on Pentium or higher
processors.
A special version for 386/486 processors is already built, but it's not
yet available anywhere.
LLaP
bero