[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Installing SuSe 6.4

[cbbrowne@dantzig.brownes.org]

On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 23:15:03 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as
MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>  said:
> "Admiral Michael H. Collins" wrote:
> > 
> > AFAIK Mandrake will not run on a 486.
> > 
> 
> I know RedHat will, at least up to 6.0, so Mandrake should as well,
> unless they are using a i686 kernel for the install...  I have RH
> running on an old notebook that is a 486dx4 75MHz.

This is precisely one of the areas where Mandrake diverges, by design,
from RH.  While the _kernels_ might be compiled using an ordinary
GCC (likely 2.7.2), a claim to fame for Mandrake is that they use
PGCC to compile all the applications and libraries, thus
generating Pentium-specific code.

It probably works well enough with newer AMD and Cyrix CPUs, but the
80486 does not fall into the group of "Pentium-compatible" CPUs.

Don't trust me; trust their web site.  

<http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3> shows the list of
supported hardware, which, for processors, indicates
  "all Pentium & compatible"
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