Does Mandrake actually work with an 486/
On 27 Oct 1999, Jaguar wrote:
> FYI
> When I first got L-M 6.0 home, and installed it...it was to an AST 486 - 66,
> with 16 MB Ram. It installed perfectly ie: no conflicts with CPU, but was
> extremely S L O W...:(
> I have since put L-M on a Cyrix GM 233 Pentium system with 32 MB Ram, same
> install...but much faster.
> Jaguar
>
> "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Rick,
> >
> > I had a variety of seemingly unrelated problems when I did the update from
> > Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. Most if not all of them were fixed when I removed the
> > kcmclock package, and reinstalled the kdelibs package. I also did some
> changes
> > to my rpmrc file, to let rpm install the Mandrake packages on my old
> 486-style
> > system. Maybe you should do the kdelibs fix and see if it has anything to
> do
> > with the update tool (unless you already have)?
> >
> > If you have a 486-style system, rpm (which is used by both Mandrake Update
> and
> > Kpackage) will by default refuse to install 586 packages on a 486 machine.
> > Axilon was gracious enough to give me the hack for the rpmrc file - BTW
> Thanks
> > AX! - located on my system at /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc. Edit the file with your
> > favorite text editor, and modify the three related lines to match as below:
> >
> > arch_compat: i486: i386 i586
> > arch_compat: osfmach3_i486: i386 osfmach3_i586
> > buildarch_compat: i486: i386 i586
> >
> > I cannot remember what information was in these lines prior to the hack, but
> I
> > added (I think the i486) stuff to each line.
> >
> > I also modified my kdelinks for Kpackage and Mandrake Update in my normal
> user
> > desktop so I could run them as if I was a superuser. I added "kdesu -c "
> > (without the quotes) to the front of the command lines in the Execute tab of
> the
> > properties box for each link. Now Mandrake Update, RPM, and Kpackage all
> work as
> > intended for me.
> >
> > Before the rpmrc hack, Mandrake Update would download the RPM's, then tell
> me
> > that the packages were for a diferent architecture in an error box, and not
> > install anything. After hacking rpmrc, I was able to remove the kcmclock
> > package, which permitted me to fix kdelibs by installing the package
> (Kpackage
> > reported that kdelibs was not installed) from the CD, and get all available
> > updates installed with Mandrake Update. Since these changes, I have not
> found
> > anything which will not work on my system. I hope there is something in
> here
> > which will be of help for you,
> >
> > Ernie
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Rick Murphy wrote:
> > | Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake
> update
> > | program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it
> will not
> > | download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when
> I
> > | re-installed mandrake?
> > |
> > | Rick
> > |
> > |
> > | --
> > | "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
>
>
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