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Topic: Get DSL running on a 486 notebook, Coprocessor not available

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Cascade

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Joined: April 2006

Posted: 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