On Monday 07 October 2002 6:04 pm, you wrote: this is what I had to do to install 9.0 onto a epia 800 C3 motherboard
do a text install, as packages start to install watch for glibc, when you see this, switch to console (alt + F2), type "rm -r /mnt/lib/i686" and press return/enter. It should now load normally. you should now switch back with alt+F1. Only problem is you don't get to choose which packages to load this way but I could not switch to console from graphical installation, is this another set of bugs/features? All this does beg the question, why does a distribution claiming to be i586 compatible, have a directory named i686? rowland > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 07:58, Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy wrote: > > It seems that the problem is that glibc package from Mandrake 9.0 has > > some libraries optimized for i686 (with the CMOV instruction) in the > > directory /lib/i686 and that the Via C3 cpu (which has not that > > instruction) is detected as i686. So, the solution is to delete that > > directory as soon as possible, when the glibc package is installed, to > > avoid programs use those libraries. I can't test this until saturday, so > > if anybody else can test it (cc. to my e-mail address please). > > Regards. > > I can try tonight .... can you tell me how you would do this so I can be > sure I'm doing it correctly. > > James
