Get DSL running on a 486 notebook

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Get DSL running on a 486 notebook
started by: Cascade

Posted by Cascade on April 22 2006,07:34

Hi,

I tried to get DSL running on a Compaq Contura Aero 433C notebook. Unfortunately, as this is a 486 processor machine, there is no math coprocessor available on this system. So on booting the kernel following message appears:

"No coprocessor found and no math emulation present.
Giving up."

I tried to boot with kernel parameter "no387" (found this one in the ubuntu wiki), but it does not work.

Maybe someone has got one or the other hint for me?

Thanks,
Cas

Posted by cbagger01 on April 24 2006,04:30

Try old DSL version 0.5.3.1

You will still need 16MB of RAM.

Posted by skaos on April 24 2006,12:12

If you can't get DSL to work then you could try < http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/ >

Posted by Cascade on April 30 2006,06:51

Quote (cbagger01 @ April 24 2006,00:30)

Try old DSL version 0.5.3.1

You will still need 16MB of RAM.

Already tried 0.5.3.1. It does not make any difference. :-(

So I guess there's no chance at all??