Thanks in Advance,
I have Mandrake 6.1. I'm wanting to put it on my IBM ValuePoint 486 DX66.
I have a 1.2Gig hard drive that I want to use for the system. The bios doesn't
support
High capacity Hard Drives. I've read somewhere (which was full of bad links)
that you don't need Overlay software to make the bios recognize the hard drive
if you use Linux.
My cd-rom on the 486 is not bootable. I also have a k-6 350 with cd-rom, which
will boot, except that I get corruption when I try to dual boot with it(another
long story).
Can anyone tell me if there's a way to install Linux on a 127MB disk then
install Mandrake onto the large drive?
Another question that might help, is there a small distrabution that has
network card support and will communicate with a WIN98 machine over a network?
Maybe this is a better way of putting it:
PC 1 Aptiva with CD-ROM and CD-RW running win98FE, ethernet card 10/100
PC2 Valuepoint 486 with 127 mb hard drive *recognized*, 20mb hardcard
*recognized* 1.2GB hard drive *not recognized* currently running WIN3.1
CD-ROM or eithernet card can be added. But CD-ROM isn't a boot device.
I'm quite confused on how I should install Linux on the 486.
James
