At 12:43 PM 12/28/2002 +0000, you wrote:
On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 12:11 pm, Simon Prosser wrote: > On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 11:55 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 2:33 pm, Poogle wrote: > > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 1:32 pm, Poogle wrote: > > > > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > > How likely is it that I could get 9.0 or 8.2 to install with this > > > > > > cpu? Has anyone got a working system with this architecture? > > > > > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > > > > > Anne, > > > > > I installed it on a Cyrix box without problems (something like a > > > > > 366 IIRC but I don't have access to it to check at the moment) > > > > Well, I tried it this morning. It's a 233 with MMX, so it's at the > > bottom end of supportable hardware, and it failed utterly. I got as far > > as F1 for options, F2 to install, then a blank screen, and absolutely > > nothing. I'm not sure it's worth spending too much time, and certainly > > not money, on this machine. If anyone knows a likely cause, I'll have > > one more try, but I'm not too hopeful. > > > > Anne > > I run Debian 3 on a P166MMX I use it as my firewall/mailserver and when its > not dialing for me it chews seti@home (takes 60 hours per chunk tho! :D) > Did your install fail because Mandrake is compiled for i586 and your box is > i486?Now that sounds likely. Is 8.2 also compiled for i586? I don't remember. Anne
Luv i have a copy of MDK 7.x for 486 processors around here burnt onto a cd. Should you wish you can d/l it from me OR I think I can find the FTP I got it from?
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