On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> I had no problem installing redhat 5.2 and 5.1 on old 486's. In fact,
> the most reliable computer in our family, the one that ends up in each
> kid's house to replace whatever is broken or lost, is an old 486-66
> with rh5.2. Slow but works great.
>
The default MANDRAKE distro kernel is for Pentium or
better. RedHat, on the other hand, still distributes for
386+. If you've got an old 486 that you want to install
Linux on, you probably ought to go with RedHat instead of
Mandrake....for now. :-)
