On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Singer XJ Wang wrote:
| Does Mandrake actually work with an 486/
|
Yes it does! I installed both Mandrake 6.0 then 6.1 (both are Macmillan
releases) without any hitches. Of course, my CPU is an AMD x5-133 and this may
not exactly be a 486, but it is on a 486-style board, and all works well, just
not with blinding speed.
Ernie
| 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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