Re: amd k6 support

[Oommen Thomas <oommen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have installed RHL 6.2 on a Compaq Presario 7470 that has AMD K6-2.
I didnt have any such problems, although I took the default settings only.

I dont think there are hardware specific issues here.

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Oommen

On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 rajeshbalan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi,
> I've a AMD K6 processor. 64MB RAM. I tried installing linux (red hat 6.2,
> dual boot with win98). I was not able to install. this is the problem i
> faced:
> 
>  1)when i tried to allocate partition for /boot (16MB) - it said    
>    PARTITION TOO BIG. I tried allocating 1MB (little weird)it said the same
> thing.
> 
>  2) I tried to do a partitionless installation by giving a DOS partition as
> / (root) mountpoint. The installation guide said, u will be getting a screen
> to choose root(/) space and swap space(twice as the size of main memory). I
> didnt get that.
> 
> RED HAT SAYS : hardware requirements as x86 and pentium. i know that the
> architecture dependant files are stored in /arch...so if the CD is intended
> for intel family, will it 've the arch dependant files for amdk6. or this
> thinking is silly.
> 
> tx,
> rajesh balan
> 
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