[Gllug] Install problems again

[Phil Reynolds]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:14:28AM +0000, North London John wrote:
> I've got a laptop with a Celeron 500mhz chip: does this mean I should 
> get a distro optimised for a 386 or what?
> I've googled, but found nowt.
> I think this might be the reason why neither Mandrake 9 nor Red Hat 8 
> is working on my box.

I would doubt that being the cause.

A Celeron is supported as a Pentium II or III (depending on its age) by the
kernel, and I think the rest of the system should cope as well.

I would be tempted to try Debian on your system. If that doesn't work, it would
be interesting to hear exactly what happens.

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