On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:05:07 -0500
Bryan Tyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a K62-500 system on which I have installed several different
> Linux distros in the past (versions of SuSE and Mandrake). I had
> Mandrake 8.2 in the house and decided to put it on this system. The
> installer behaved very oddly when it reached package selection, and
> ultimately it did not work. I decided, OK, let's try SuSE 8.1. Same
> thing. Once it hit package selection, it failed.
>
> A little web searching seemed to indicate these later versions don't
> even work with K62. Mandrake had a patch on their site, but I could not
> get it to work even with the patch. Reading the SuSE box, I found in
> the hardware requirements, for AMD it only lists Duron, Athlon, Athlon
> XP and Athlon MP. The Mandrake site also said it would not work with
> Pentium I.
>
> In this case I installed Mandrake 8.1, and it worked great.
>
> I guess a K62 500 MHz is not very modern, but I would hardly consider it
> obsolete. It has plenty of pep for use in the office. Linux used to
> have an advantage for working with older hardware. It looks like that
> advantage is being lost.
I have the same processor and had no problems with Mandrake 8.2 or 9.0 .
HTH,
-Frans
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