On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 11:55 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 2:33 pm, Poogle wrote: > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 1:32 pm, Poogle wrote: > > > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > How likely is it that I could get 9.0 or 8.2 to install with this > > > > > cpu? Has anyone got a working system with this architecture? > > > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > > > Anne, > > > > I installed it on a Cyrix box without problems (something like a 366 > > > > IIRC but I don't have access to it to check at the moment) > > Well, I tried it this morning. It's a 233 with MMX, so it's at the bottom > end of supportable hardware, and it failed utterly. I got as far as F1 for > options, F2 to install, then a blank screen, and absolutely nothing. I'm > not sure it's worth spending too much time, and certainly not money, on > this machine. If anyone knows a likely cause, I'll have one more try, but > I'm not too hopeful. > > Anne I run Debian 3 on a P166MMX I use it as my firewall/mailserver and when its not dialing for me it chews seti@home (takes 60 hours per chunk tho! :D) Did your install fail because Mandrake is compiled for i586 and your box is i486? -- os[Linux 2.4.19-16mdk - Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin) for i586] up[ 14 hours, 33 minutes] Qt: 3.1.0 KDE: 3.1.0 (RC5) Remember the good old days, when CPU was singular?
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