I had no problem installing redhat 5.2 and 5.1 on old 486's. In fact,
the most reliable computer in our family, the one that ends up in each
kid's house to replace whatever is broken or lost, is an old 486-66
with rh5.2. Slow but works great.
--- Bill Traynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, but I did read the warning. However, I also
> read on various
> newsgroups that several people had the 'Pentium
> enhanced' version running on
> 486's. So I thought I'd give it a try.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:59 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Trial (installation) by fire!
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Bill Traynor wrote:
>
> > > Here's what I have:
> > > old 486DX2/66 with 20MB RAM, AMI BIOS circa
> 08/08/1994
> > >
> > > Having just purchased the hard drive, I
> installed it, inserted a Linux
> > > Mandrake 6 boot disk and rebooted.
>
> You should have read the hardware requirements
> before trying to install
> it.
> The normal version of Mandrake 6 will run only on
> Pentium or higher
> processors.
>
> A special version for 386/486 processors is already
> built, but it's not
> yet available anywhere.
>
> LLaP
> bero
>
>
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