Terry Collins wrote:
>
> Gidday Folks
>
> Is anyone noticing any trouble doing installs of later distros onto 486
> hardware?
>
> I'm currently have a lot of trouble getting Suse 6.4 onto an AST Bravo
> 486DX2/66 that previously ran Suse 6.0 okay. Also had trouble with
> getting Debian 2.2 (spud beta 6/2k) on as well.
>
I assume you are using YAST (the older installer as used in
6.0)and not YAST2 to do the install. The only gotcha is that you
have to pick the basic 386 kernel. The distribution selects a
pentium optimised kernal by default. Other than that you should be
sweet.
Stay well and happy
Heracles
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