Id try Slackware 8 .. im sure after nosing around the hardware youl find one
of the disk boot images in /bootdsk144   -- that would boot also one of the
System disks usually the color image is cool..

Just use the rawrite.exe to create the disk images ..

I had to do this with this Compaq which has an onboard scsi that is label'd
Compaq but is a rather cut up Tekram scsi card and chipset ...

so yup i had to build the disk set to bring the Scsi adaptor up online at
boot time to install onto the Scsi drives..

now the dandy little P120 sings ...


----- Original Message -----
From: "JD Austin IV" <geek@austinbox.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: Linux install hangs hard on kernel load


> A K5 is a souped up 486 that although they say it's equivalent to
> a low end pentioum, it cannot process pentium instructions.
> Most distributions are optimized for i686 processors which doesnt include
> K5 processors.  I know that Debian will work since I just loaded potato
> on a 486.  If you don't want to load debian you might check slackware,
> to see if that is compiled for 386 or not.  Mandrake 7.0 has a version
that
> is compiled for 386's also.
>
> Good luck :)
>
> JD
>
> > Attempting to load Linux on a friend's AMD K5 box... pretty much every
> > distro we tried (Mandrake 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, Redhat 7.0, 6.0 -- okay we
> > didn't try Debian or SuSe)... you get the screen (F1 for help or Enter
> > to load), press Enter and it says, "Loading cdrom.img" or "loading
> > boot.img" ... prints three dots and hangs, even pressing NumLock
> > doens't blink the light.
> >
> > The only one that would load was an ancient icky version of Storm
> > Linux.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > \\/
> >
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