Funny it installed on a Amd k5 166 , Amd k6 350 , 400 , 450 and 500
in fact my laptop is a 450 k6 all running Linux Mandrake , Redhat and
S.u.S.E.
Mandrake 8.0, Redhat 7.1, S.u.S.E. 7.1
Stormix Hail ,
On my Amd LAptop I even have DVD working.
maybe you have something set wrong. Do you have plugl and play option os in
your bios disabled?
Also check your setting for yout boot devices in your bio should be set to
cdrom , then hard drive or floppy.
If you have it to boot of hard drive first then floppy or floppy and then
hard drive you will not get it to install.
I even Installed Mandrake 80 on a AMD 486 machine for a friend just to show
him it will work.
This is from Mandrakes site.
all Pentium & compatible
Pentium, Pentium pro, Pentium MMX, Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron, Cyrix
6x86, Cyrix M II, AMD K6, K6-2, Athlon, Winchip ...
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3
http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/genpage2.cgi?pagename=7.1&statpage=7.1-icore
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Pratt <linuxmad@tampabay.rr.com>
To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
Date: Saturday, June 23, 2001 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Mandrake & AMD
>On Saturday 23 June 2001 10:24, you wrote:
>> AMD K6/2 is a pentium class processor.
>> In fact it is in the pentium II class.
>>
>> Who ever told you it is not does not work on PC's.
>>
>
>Never said it didn't work on PC's. I simply said that MDK 8.0 and RedHat
7.1
>won't install on my AMD machines and I think it's the AMD chips. I have
both
>AMD K6 200 and AMD K6/2 350 and neither will get Linux on it.
>
>> Also all these processors run x86 instructions that is why
>> they are backwards compatiable.
>
>Didn't question the chip... it's the installaiton of MDK, which states a
>Pentium chip is required...
>
>
>--
>Jason Pratt
>linuxmad@tampabay.rr.com
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