Hell, I am running mandrake 9.0 on a couple of 233mmx machines, with 128 and 160Mb ram...
neither is a speed king, but both are bearable.. in fact, the one with 160mb is also a samba server, a mail server, a web server a firewall and NAT server.. (on my home network) Its got an uptime of months and its even usable in KDE.. so I was impressed. 8.2 wasn't as fast... ram is important.. if you think you have enough, slap yourself around abit and then get some more.. rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2002 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Unexpected Installation Failure 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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