Mandrake 8.2 Install help on 486

[Kevin Brown]

That won't fix the issue with the fact that the mandrake kernel and all the
software is for 586 and up.  You will have to use a different distro.

> Well I know that another distro will work on it. I got Slackware 8 on it.
> But I don't want to have to go through all of the configuration that that
> requires to get it working the way I want it to. That's why I want to know
> if someone knows how to change the default kernel on the mandrake install
> CD. It should be as simple (unless its compressed) as finding the kernel and
> replacing it and reburning the CD-- I would think anyways...
> 
> Anyone else have anything to add?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Brown" <kevin_brown@qwest.net>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.2 Install help on 486
> 
> | Mandrake is optimized for Pentium (586) or better processors.  I don't
> think it
> | will work on a 486.
> |
> | Try debian or RH or gentoo or a distro designed for use as a firewall
> | (smoothwall, esmith, etc...).
> |
> | > 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?
> | >
> | > --------------------
> | > J e f f  B a r k e r
> | > --------------------
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