On 27 Sep 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > I think our kernel is not very well tested on very old processors > like yours, it's perfectly possible it has bugs with plain old > Pentiums now :-(. But we don't have pentiums here to test.. So > the 2.2.19 should mostly work for you... > > > The Pentium 200 MMX sits on an Intel TC430HX motherboard (no USB) and I > > have had Windows 2000 Adv Server installed and now SNF7.2 recently > > installed and still running on this PC with this hardware configuration > > (96 MB RAM, Adaptec 2940, Pioneer SCSI CD, Intel PCI network card, > > Netgear PCI network card, Matrox Mystique G200, Quantum IDE harddisk). > > > > Is this a i586 issue or a hardware/motherboard issue? I have no other > > I'm not kernel expert and it's hard to guess without much > information but I'd favor a problem with this old processor. > > > plain Pentium (i586) PC where I can try the 9.0 on. Has anyone else > > succeeded to install the 9.0 on an "old Pentium"? > I've got a P166/80MB here I've been using for terminal-server. Just kicked of a final release install on it, seems to boot from CD fine and is into installing packages, so there doesn't seem to be anything pentium specific wrong with the installer kernel. Incidently, this machine has another of the "non-working" Mach64 cards. Display is not pretty at 8bpp with a bulge in the middle during install, but it's functional. I got the standard warning about low resources, and the install is fairly slow, but it does seem to be working. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
