Thanks for the Information, I'll try both Distros when I get home.
James Flanagan
If you goto http://www.linux-mandrake.com they have a version that was made
for the 486.
There is a floppy-based networking distro of Linux called Linux Router
Project
http://www.linuxrouter.org
-Original Message-
From: Jaguar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 4:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Mandrake and large hard Drive on
There is a new special version of Mandrake 7.0 for 486, the regular version is for
586+...
MarkP
Jaguar wrote:
> Mandrake 6.0 and up is optimised for Pentium based machines...it may install
> on your 486...but it will be very slow.
> Yes I have seen a floppy based install for Networking...n
Thanks in Advance,
I have Mandrake 6.1. I'm wanting to put it on my IBM ValuePoint 486 DX66.
I have a 1.2Gig hard drive that I want to use for the system. The bios doesn't
support
High capacity Hard Drives. I've read somewhere (which was full of bad links)
that you don't need Overlay sof
