I have the same cpu and 8.1 ,8.2 and 9.0 worked jst fine Greg Frans Ketelaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:05:07 -0500 >Bryan Tyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a K62-500 system on which I have installed several different >> Linux distros in the past (versions of SuSE and Mandrake). I had >> Mandrake 8.2 in the house and decided to put it on this system. The >> installer behaved very oddly when it reached package selection, and >> ultimately it did not work. I decided, OK, let's try SuSE 8.1. Same >> thing. Once it hit package selection, it failed. >> >> A little web searching seemed to indicate these later versions don't >> even work with K62. Mandrake had a patch on their site, but I could not >> get it to work even with the patch. Reading the SuSE box, I found in >> the hardware requirements, for AMD it only lists Duron, Athlon, Athlon >> XP and Athlon MP. The Mandrake site also said it would not work with >> Pentium I. >> >> In this case I installed Mandrake 8.1, and it worked great. >> >> I guess a K62 500 MHz is not very modern, but I would hardly consider it >> obsolete. It has plenty of pep for use in the office. Linux used to >> have an advantage for working with older hardware. It looks like that >> advantage is being lost. > >I have the same processor and had no problems with Mandrake 8.2 or 9.0 . > >HTH, > > -Frans > > -- Linux The Number one Os __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
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