-On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Civileme wrote:
> Your hardware isn't up to the task of
> Mandrake, which is compiled for Pentium and Higher Processors. We are
> encountering a host of hardware flaws as we activate the advanced code, and the
> howling and disabling of DMA by at least one kernel suggests strongly that your
> HDD or your chipset (likely neither being replacable on a laptop) is one of those
> that was produced with the leeway afforded by 386 code exploited to keep costs
> down.
Thanks for that - you've made my mind up on the laptop. The laptop
chipset is weird, although the hd seems ok. I should have been clearer in my
questions though, as I had tried the install on three separate pcs.
Apparently the boot.img on the 6.1 cd was the cause of the disk errors. I got
an installation together on my other pc with the single disk cheeplinux 6.1
disk. The gi_boot.img never ran on a clean disk. I even have a version of X
running, which will be a lot better when I get the Sis Server.
--
Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
