Submitted 08-Dec-00 by Bob Puff@NLE:

> This is pretty much a stock install from a 7.1 disk (on a 486 system).

And that's the problem.  Mandrake packages are built for i586, a newer
architecture.  While certainly some packages will run fine on your 486, it's
a game of russian roulette as you will get segfaults caused by illegal
instructions whenever an app issues a 586 instruction.

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