On Sunday 18 November 2001 08:27 pm, Alan Dayley wrote: > I have an old 486SX PC that I thought would be good as a basic Linux > install to allow my kids to surf with. It's specs are below. > > RH 7.2 install just gets a little ways in and gives up because there is no > math co-processor. Slackware 8.0 when clear through the entire > installation and fails on the first actual boot, printing "LI" of the lilo > boot message and freezing completely. > > Will any of the "standard" distributions work on this PC or should I go > looking for some distro specialized for low powered systems? Or, perhaps > the lilo problem has nothing to do with low power? The "LI" problem should have nothing to do with low power. I got the same thing installing Redhat 7.2 on a PIIII 1.5 GHZ. I wish I could remember what I did to get past the problem. I did reinstall and chose to have lilo written to the other location (as opposed to where ever I chose before and got "LI"). > > SPECS: > "Dell Precision 486/33S", 33 MHz 486SX, 16MB RAM, 1.2GB IDE hard drive > (master), 24x CD-ROM (slave), sound card, Intel EtherExpress PRO ISA > network card. Video on the motherboard (I don't remember brand), 3.5" > floppy drive, serial mouse on com1, keyboard. > > Alan > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Hopefully the kids get curious and dig deeper when they get bored with surfing the web. Linux/UNIX(R) are very powerful systems. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Isaac Sparrow Staff Engineer VisiComp, Inc. http://www.visicomp.com GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 1060 5A07 F6EC B2B3 9AAA 3EA5 7B79 EFE1 6397 4F47 Get my public key at: http://www.concentric.net/~issparow Riffle West Virginia is so small that the Boy Scout had to double as the town drunk.