Thanks to all the respondants for very informative answers. You're right,
machines equipped with 486-33 are just not powerful enough
to support Linux Mandrake. This must be due to driver speed optimisations
for Pentium class machines, I guess.
I did try loading on Linux RedHat 5.2 and noticed the following:
a) When I created the boot floppy from CDROM:\images\boot.img, this boot
image actually gave all the install options that
the Linux Mandrake claimed to offer, but actually didn't. e.g. Installation
from a windows shared directory. I never located this
on the Mandrake CDROM. I guess this is because Mandrake is aimed more at
PC's which have CDROM capability and does
not want to be overly submissive to Windows?
b) RedHat 5.2 actually started loading, but this was very slow, format of
the oversized 8GB hard drive didn't help. The other thing
I noticed (Alt F4) were CDROM timeouts, errors and resets. Certain bits
failed to load, the point had been proven so I just turned the machine off.
I'm new to this type of forum, and am most impressed with it...
I now declare my question answered.
Regards,
Tej..
-----Original Message-----
From: Tejinder Singh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 7:57 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [expert] Please Help I can't install Linux Mandrake 6.0
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.
The following are detected and reported by Linux install image from CDROM
1:/images/boot.img when it is booted:
hda FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA Disk drive
hdb CREATIVE CD4834E, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, 8036MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63
hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is an 8272A
scsi : 0 hosts
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > (NB These were set
up when the drive was in the other PC)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
hello
Red Hat install init version 1.1 starting
:
:
A few more lines, everything looks fine here
:
running install... (AND HERE IT LOCKS UP)
Doing Alt F4 shows the following output
<7>: <VFS>: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64)
<4>: hdb: drive_cmd: Status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>: hdb: drive_cmd: error = 0x04
<4>: hdb: lost interrupt
<4>: hdb: lost interrupt
<4>: hdb: lost interrupt
AD INFINITUM
I would be most grateful if someone could help on this.
Thanks In Advance to all those who are going to read this,
Tej..
