"All we are saying
Is give min a chance"
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Yet another man who would sign the Holy Minimal Install petition, if it
existed... Personally, I've lost the hope that Mandrake will change its
vision to a smarter installation. Mandrake focuses on the number of
packages, assuming that developers are constantly *improving* their
applications. But this is not true : new bugs are commonly introduced
with latest features. Also, staying "on the bleeding edge" is the best
thing to do if you want to break what used to work (how many "broken"
reports on this list?). Mandrake looks like someone who would build a
huge stone castle upon the sand. You never know if the next stone will
swallow an entire part of the castle, or if it will fit nicely. In a few
French words, I would say : "c'est un peu trop le bazar pour en faire
une cath�drale". But that's only my worthless opinion.
</style>
Anyway, for your request, were there many differences in the
instructions sets of 80386 and 80486? Compiling for 486 is useless if
the instruction sets are the same. Also, 386 based-PCs had BIOSes that
could not deal with hard drives larger than 528 MB. Are such harddrives
sufficient for Linux-Mandrake, even if the minimal install existed?
Latter 486s did not have this limitation, hence are perhaps better.
Good night.
Gr�goire
Don Head wrote:
> Before Mandrake considers going forward in the processor
> world, could we maybe take a step backwards?
>
> I'd like the *EXACT* same thing, only for i386/i486
> processors.
>
> I can rebuild the bulk of the packages myself (my 486
> laptop has a small drive, can't put too many on there
> anyway), but the installation process and base packages
> would make my life 300% better.
>
> Quite a few people have asked for 486 support in the
> past, and I understand Mandrake's position on not being
> able to recompile 1187 SRPMs for 10 different
> architectures, but if you could at least get the
> installation process and base packages (what did that
> come out to be.. 50-100MB of packages?) recompiled, the
> rest of us contributors could do the rest as people
> request them, or as we need.
>
> *PLEASE* consider this, as you'll make a *LOT* of people
> *REALLY* happy.
>
>
> Don Head
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: guran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:52 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: [Cooker] Minimal install -> i686
>>
>>
>>Hi
>>
>>I wonder if it is feasable for Mdk to make a tree of a
>>'Minimal install' of
>>i686 at the mirrors after Mdk 8.1 is kicked out.
>>
>>Any subsequent need of packages could then be installed as source.
>>
>>regards
>>guran
>>
>>--
>>Mandrake 8.1 beta Cooker kernel= 2.4.8-12 - 1.561
