On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 10:32, rowland wrote: > 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?
You can switch just that I've always found that you have to go to ctrl alt f1 first.... the alt f2. As for watching an app. click details and you can see it happen just as in the text install. > All this does beg the question, why does a distribution claiming to be i586 > compatible, have a directory named i686? It's part of glibc and if you have a 686 cpu (like a celeron) it does get used for the kernel. (Even in RH they do this) James > 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 >
