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I have an old AMD K6-II 350 which I would like to install Linux on, the only
problem is that it has a PC Chips motherboard that Redhat 5.2 doesn't like.
Has anyone had any success in running a newer version of Redhat (with
X-Windows)on a PC Chips motherboard? If not, could anyone please recommend
another distribution (with X-Windows) that sits happily on a PC Chips
motherboard.

Thanks,
--
Mark Diplock
usenet at diplock dot net

I use SUSE 6.3 on a very old PC chips board (VX pro I think) with a very
slow cyrix p133 and 16mb of memory, you can get it for about 30 on 6 cds,
it comes with loads of apps (star office, word perfect, blender, demo
games...) though there is some dodgy german translation but its not a major
problem.  The only issue I had was installing the right kernel (486 instead
of a pentium) but you should have no probs if you have lots of ram and a
good graphics card, I think it has 3D support for TNT, 3DFX and Matrox.

Quote:> I have an old AMD K6-II 350 which I would like to install Linux on, the
only
> problem is that it has a PC Chips motherboard that Redhat 5.2 doesn't
like.
> Has anyone had any success in running a newer version of Redhat (with
> X-Windows)on a PC Chips motherboard? If not, could anyone please recommend
> another distribution (with X-Windows) that sits happily on a PC Chips
> motherboard.

> Thanks,
> --
> Mark Diplock
> usenet at diplock dot net

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 16:53:41 +0100, "Mark Diplock"

Which PC Chips board do you have?

I ran Redhat 6.0 for a while on my old PC Chips M571 (SiS 5598
chipset), with a Cyrix 233 - no apparent problems.

Mike

Quote:> Which PC Chips board do you have?

> I ran Redhat 6.0 for a while on my old PC Chips M571 (SiS 5598
> chipset), with a Cyrix 233 - no apparent problems.

I think my board is an M571 as well, i'll have to give redhat another try,
perhaps they have cured the problem since 5.2

Thanks,
--
Mark Diplock
usenet at diplock dot net

Hi

I've installed redhat 6 on an older pc which had a jet  mb which is similar to
pc-chips
if not the same (rebadged).
myk