Ashley,
I would be very, VERY surprised if you were able to get Mandrake 7.0-7.1
installed on that laptop. That is old equipment and I would venture to say
that most, if all the hardware in that machine is not at all supported by
these two distributions. About the only thing you might get running on
there is Windows 9x.
Sorry...
--
Mark
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:49am ,Ashley Moore spake passionately in a message:
> I've come across an old Compaq 'Contura 410c' Laptop which is a 486-DX2-50
> / 8 Mb RAM / 2 GB HDD / 1.44 MB FDD / Color VGA (No CDROM). I desperately
> want to use it to do more that just playing pacman under DOS.
> I got myself a parallel port external CD case, from which I want to perform
> a LM installation. I've heard that the boot disk image for installing RH
> from parallel port CD is different from what is included in the
> distribution. Is this the same case with the LM install, and if is, where
> would I find such an .img.
> I've just downloaded the 'mandrake70-2_i486.iso' image and put it onto a
> CD. Is there anything else that I should keep in mind / know about before
> starting the install.
>
> Any pointers / help/ suggestions are most welcome.
>
> FYI: I am currently running LM 7.1 on my AMD K6-450 / 144 MB / 13.2 GB
> HDD..... and it works like a breeze.
>
> Ashley Moore.
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