[Wylug-help] Installing on ancient systems?

[Anne Wilson]

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On Tuesday 04 May 2004 14:53, Jim Jackson wrote:
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> All this talk of ancient systems!!!! My desktop machine is an AMD
> K5/333 with 128M and it has been given sterling service for years.
> Has a CD/RW drive upgraded about a year ago.
>
> Anne's problem certainly looks like a BIOS problem, but I'm
> surprized. Most of these sorts of problems were usually on systems
> prior to celeron 300's, as were the duff CDROM drives that couldn't
> read CD-R's or CD-RW's
>
I think that may have been around the crucial time, Jim.  I have a box
that had an ibm/cyrix 300, which would not accept Mandrake at all, but
I bought an amd400 cpu and installed it.  Due to oddities in the
multipliers it ended up running at a strange speed - something line
418, but it accepted Mandrake 9.1 and runs fine.  That box I'm going to
keep for now.

Anne
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