Mandrake is OPmtized for Pentium CLass CPU, others may or may not work.
Plus, DLC processors were know to be flakey.
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > > I purchased a copy of Mandrake about 3 months ago.
> > >
> > > I successfully managed to install this on a PC whose BIOS supports CDROM boot.
> > >
> > > Recently I thought I'd put it onto an older PC. Spec:
> > > Cyrix 486 DLC 33 MHZ processor
> > > 8 MBytes DRAM
> > > Maths coprocessor (Weitek?)
> > > The external device controller is not built onto the motherboard. Plugs into an
>ISA slot.
> > > There is an external ISA Trident 1MB VGA video card.
> > >
> > There's your problem...this system probably is too ancient
> > for Mandrake. That's not a "real" 486.... that's a
> > "souped-up" 386. Trust me, I remember when those were the
> > cheap alternate upgrade route for people like me who
> > couldn't afford to spend $300 for a motherboard and CPU! :-)
> > John
>
> Yep, thats the 386 25mhz to 486 SX 33mhz "middle-man"
>
> The problem is more with the mb/hd combo, but you will run into John is
> anticipating
>
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> --Axalon
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