Mandrake 8.2 install on an old 486

[jtannenba]

I thought I read somewhere that Mandrake REQUIRES a 
minimum of a Pentium?  I don't think it needs a
powerful pentium, but a pentium neverless?
Joe
--- Jeff Barker <jeff@stickboyproductions.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've been inactive on the list for several months
> now. I had somehow gotten
> removed from it right around the same time that Cox
> moved to DHCP.
> 
> Anyways...
> 
> I'm having a slight problem. Here's a little
> background:
> I've been using Slackware since version 3.4. I have
> always loved it, but
> disliked all of the configuration and non
> "user-friendly" tasks it sometimes
> requires. Don't get me wrong, I like playing around
> with that kind of stuff
> and know what I'm doing, but I always knew it
> wouldn't be that hard to set
> up an install similar to windows that would detect
> all of your hardware and
> configure X for you and all that good stuff. I had
> heard good things about
> Mandrake from this list and other sources, so I
> downloaded the 3 isos,
> burned them and installed them. Worked great! It
> even detected my audigy
> card, which I had had so many problems trying to get
> to work in Slackware.
> It configured X for me, and even did the Cox DHCP
> thing wonderfully. I was
> installed, configured, on the net and completely
> ready to go in under an
> hour. I was very pleased. (oh! it even mounted all
> of my windows partitions
> for me and gave me icons on my desktop for the
> floppy, DVD Drive, and
> Burner!! That was something I had never gotten
> around to figuring out how to
> do in Slackware. I was getting really tired of
> typing mount commands in a
> console window whenever I wanted to use a CD)
> Needless to say, I think I've
> found a new Distro I'm going to stick with for a
> while.
> 
> So, here's my problem:
> 
> I have a friend who wants me to set up a firewall
> for him on his old 486.
> It's a Compaq 860 CDS with 16MB RAM, some type of
> built in video card (I
> haven't figured that one out yet cause it's not too
> big of a deal on a
> firewall), one 8 gig hard drive, a burner that I'm
> using for the CD-ROM (the
> original was SCSI coming from a SB16 ISA sound card
> - took that out real
> quick, a floppy, and two ISA NE2000 Compatible
> network cards (that's another
> problem I'm going to need to figure out, getting
> ISAPNP setup. I can't get
> into the bios for anything and it won't boot from
> the CD so I have to start
> with a floppy. The 486 doesn't have a math
> coprocessor. That part is the
> actual problem I'm having.
> 
> I created a boot disk with Mandrake that just boots
> from the CD after
> reading the floppy. It reads the floppy, boots the
> CD, and loads the
> graphical selection screen to choose expert install
> and other options, or
> just doing the default install. At that point, no
> matter which one I choose,
> it uses a default kernel from the CD and is stopping
> right after detecting
> the 486 and says that there is no coprocessor
> detected and math emulation is
> not present.
> 
> So does anyone know of a way to use the Mandrake CDs
> to install, but use a
> different default kernel than the one that's on the
> CD? I need to use one
> with the math emulation compiled into it.
> 
> I don't care how I have to do it, but I want to get
> Mandrake 8.2 on this
> machine. (I'm hoping I haven't overlooked some
> "hardware requirement" thing
> that says Mandrake won't work with less than so much
> memory or has to have a
> certain processor.
> 
> Where do I go from here? Did I leave any details
> out? Did I add too many?
> hehehe
> --------------------
> J e f f   B a r k e r
> --------------------
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