[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Installing SuSe 6.4

[MadHat]

"Admiral Michael H. Collins" wrote:
> 
>         Mandrake is not RedHat.  All the packages are optimized for 586.  The
> only reason I use Mandrake is that it is not RedHat.  Why would one
> asssume that Mandrake is the same?

The origonal Mandrake (up to about V6.0) distro was a direct rip of
RedHat with changes of the install, like what was started by default,
and some patches here and there.  They were essentially the same distro
for quite a while.

> 
> I have a redhat install that runs on a 386.
> 
> DrakFunn..
> 
> MadHat wrote:
> >
> > "Admiral Michael H. Collins" wrote:
> > >
> > > AFAIK Mandrake will not run on a 486.
> > >
> >
> > I know RedHat will, at least up to 6.0, so Mandrake should as well,
> > unless they are using a i686 kernel for the install...  I have RH
> > running on an old notebook that is a 486dx4 75MHz.
> >

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