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

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