[plug] Free CD linux - any good ?

[Adam Ashley]

not on the base Mandrake install. its 586 and above only you can get a
special mandrake version for 486, but its less hassle just to get another
distro

Adan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike [mailto:erazmus at wantree.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2001 3:30 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Free CD linux - any good ?
>
>
> 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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