RE: [newbie] Trial (installation) by fire!
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
Re: [newbie] Trial (installation) by fire!
So far as I know, MANDRAKE has been tweaked for 586's (Pentium class). Original Message On 7/19/99, 7:30:11 AM, Bill Traynor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Trial (installation) by fire!: I tried relentlessly over the last weekend to install Linux and was unsuccessful. What am I missing? Here's what I have: old 486DX2/66 with 20MB RAM, AMI BIOS circa 08/08/1994 Trident ISA video card DaynaPORT ISA NIC Fujitsu 4.3GB hard drive 40X CDROM, standard Floppy Drive Here's what I did: Having just purchased the hard drive, I installed it, inserted a Linux Mandrake 6 boot disk and rebooted. The install began but froze at the point where it say "Running Install". Note, my BIOS does not allow a boot from the CD, so I was out of luck there. I then placed a Redhat 5.2 boot.img in the FD and rebooted. The install process recognized the Mandrake CD and appeared to have installed (2.5 hrs later). Upon restarting, LILO froze at the letter I, only LI printed on the screen. I recognized this problem as one that I'd seen on mailing lists, however, I wanted to at least perform an install to the point where I could reboot and configure manually so I decided to try again from scratch. I rebooted with a DOS disk and ran FDISK, deleting the Linux Partition and Swap Partition. I rebooted again, ran FDISK and proceeded to create a Primary DOS partition. At this point, FDISK indicated that the maximum available space for the partition was 470MB. What? Why did this happen? So basically, I need to know how to start an install from scratch? Also, should I just invest in a cheap TX motherboard and P133 or something, in order to avoid the limitations of the old motherboard? Should I be able to install considering my hardware? I really want to add a Linux workstation to my Network (2 Win98 machines networked using SyGate). Eventually, I'd like to eliminate Win98 server and replace it with Linux. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks Bill
RE: [newbie] Trial (installation) by fire!
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. --- Bill Traynor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Trial (installation) by fire!
Actually, You might consider Mandrake 5.3. I found it a good, solid distribution, and I really liked the additional packages over Red Hat's 5.2. Also, since it wasn't built for i586, Mandrake 5.3 should work just great on 386/486. I also believe the kernel update RPMs for 5.3 are still non-optimized, so you have a 2.2 kernel ready to install (after a short download)! Unless, of course, you're really wanting RH 6.0... -Matt On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote: 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 Mandrakefor now. :-)
