[ale] Cyrix 233 CPU

[Liberie F. Cunha-Neto]

You tried Gentoo Linux in this machine ? (stage1 , stage2 or stage3)
or Debian GNU/Linux ?



George Johnson wrote:

>Seems that Slackware 9.1 installed ok.  It sees the chip ok and in the
>dmesg file it states it is correcting for known flaws in the Cyrix chip.
>It does have an issue that it is looking for updated dependencies every
>time it boots.  I think I may have lopped off too many items in the
>install.  I only wanted a minimum install for networking and email
>purposes.  I will be bringing it to the install fest.  It only sees 1 of
>my NICs too.  I will be working on it all week.
>
>George Johnson
>Regional Account Manager
>Morgan Business Associates
>gjohnson at mbacs.com		
>Phone 678-642-7696
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>Matthew Magee
>Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 8:13 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>Subject: Re: [ale] Cyrix 233 CPU
>
>I had a similar problem with a AMD K62-500.  Turns out that the CPU
>itself was 
>dead.  RedHat, SuSE, and Mandrake refused to install.  Free BSD would 
>install, but running top would produce a floating point error.  I put in
>a 
>K6-200 in the same box, and all is well.
>
>May not be the same problem you are having, but an idea anyway.
>
>On Tuesday 07 October 2003 03:55 pm, George Johnson wrote:
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>>I have an older system, a Power Spec box, that seems to have a hard
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>time
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>>loading RH9 or SuSE8.2.  Is there a problem with the CPU in this case?
>>SuSE stalls looking at possible packages and RH9 puts garbage on the
>>screen in Anaconda.  Manual or lower level installs do not work
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>either.
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>>I have 96MB Ram installed.  What is going on here?
>>
>>George Johnson
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>>Phone 678-642-7696
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