On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Don Head wrote:
> > Of course, this is due to the balance between resources-cost and
> > targetted-public-equipement. (other ports do enter the
> > competition, as you
> > can see on the given link).
> I totally understand the situation, and don't really
> disagree with it.
> I do have one question though, that I have asked a number
> of times and never really gotten a clear/good response
> on. Is it at all possible to have the installation
> process compiled for an i486? That way I could rebuild
> all the packages I want and use the same installation
> images. That would make life SOOO much better for me,
> and I could get Red Hat off all these pre-Pentium
> systems.
Seconded. There are many 486 machines that I would like to put a
cut-down, Xserver-only version of Mandrake onto. I'm happy rebuilding the
packages for i486, but I'd prefer not to have to delve into the
intricacies of the installer if possible.
Code execution speed during the installer is not really a major issue,
since the majority of the time is spent doing disk or network I/O anyway.
As far as I can see there's no drawback to having a 486-compatible
installer - please correct me if this is not the case.
Michael
