On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Bill Crouch wrote:
> John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok John, I finally figured out the "#" is the "REM" equivilant of DOS. My
> > > problem is that when I went to do the "mount -w -o remount /dev/hda1/" I get
> > > a message that the /root wasn't mounted or "bad option" and the file is still a
> > > read only. Now I am doing this on a 486/100 machine if that makes a
> > > difference. Any suggestions on making the drive a R/W?
> > >
> > Hmm...you *are* aware that Mandrake is not set up to work
> > on a 486, aren't you? Mandrake works on Pentium or better.
> > My *guess* is that your system is missing some stuff in the
> > CPU that's included in the Pentium or better.
> > John
>
> I also get the same in RH 5.2 that states in the docs that it is compatable with 386
> and up systems. And no I didn't know about mandrake not working on a 486....my
> brother-in-law sent it to try.
>
>
Give it the full mount command
mount /dev/hda1 / -o remount -o rw
and you should be ok. 6.0 boots and runs on my 486/100 but i can't do any
real tests on it, it overheats in less than 15 minutes.
