[plug] Free CD linux - any good ?

[Mike]

TAh Ari,

It is an AMD DX4/133 ie 33Mhz Bus, 4x clocked, though 40Mhz bus, (3.3V)
160MHz units have done the rounds - the limit is the bus width
and frequency though the core is quickish - just upgraded my
old 33Mhz laptop with the amd chip for $20 and works a f..... treat,
trouble is I had to patch the bios to program the chipset otherwise
my disk slowed down...

What I was really wondering about is - will the 486 architecture be
OK - is there a 'switch' conditional setup/compile to exclude pentium
class inst ?

Rgds

Mike

At 01:59 AM 29/3/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>The quick answer is 'yes'.  However, I'm not sure that the free cd on
>the cover of Australian PC World Magazine for this month has a truly
>full version of Mandrake 7.2.  Others here may know better than I
>though.  Also, I didn't know that 486s went up to 133mhz...did you
>mean 33mhz?  The 64mb RAM will definitely help, as KDE won't run well
>on anything less than 32mb (I tried on a P75 with 16mb RAM, and it
>chugged to the point of being useless, and Gnome would not run at
>all).  A 2GB HDD is a good size, any smaller and you risk not being
>able to install all you want in the near future :-)
>
>Ari
>
>Original message from: Mike <erazmus at wantree.com.au>
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Have just bought 'pc world' and it has a cd with mandrake 7.2
>>and kde 2.0.1 (Sorry to confess I bought the mag for the other
>>cd for games for the lids <sigh>)
>>
>>Can I use this cd without much reservation to set up linux on
>>an amd 486dx133, 2g hd, 64MB ram ?
>>
>>Rgds
>>
>>mike
>>
>>
>>.
>>
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