Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-07 Thread civileme
shane wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 14:55, Michael Adams opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386 as it is compiled for pentiums. I beleive there is a 486 distro downloadable (from memory). Thanks for the info, much

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-07 Thread shane
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 02:14, civileme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I guess the real difference will come with the hammer-core processors which are x86 compatible unlike IA-64, but have significant enhancements beyond the 64-bit wideness. There a

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Adams
While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? skinky I have 7.1 running on a p1 circa 95-96 second PC and it is graphically very different. Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386 as it is compiled for pentiums. I beleive

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 9:15 am, skinky wrote: On 06 May 2002 22:57, Michael Adams wrote: While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? skinky I have 7.1 running on a p1 circa 95-96 second PC and it is graphically

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-06 Thread skinky
On 06 May 2002 22:57, Michael Adams wrote: While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? skinky I have 7.1 running on a p1 circa 95-96 second PC and it is graphically very different. Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-06 Thread shane
On Monday 06 May 2002 14:55, Michael Adams opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386 as it is compiled for pentiums. I beleive there is a 486 distro downloadable (from memory). Thanks for the info, much appreciated.