Re: debian not working on a PC without math copro
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> a friend of mine was trying to install debina but unfortunately he
> couldn't because her machine didn't have a math coprocessors,do you know
> if there's installation disk for this,here's the spec of his machine:
This shouldn't be too hard: at the loadlin prompt, enter the magic words
linux no387
That should do it.
When you install lilo, you may have to put a line
append="no387"
in /etc/lilo.conf to avoid having to type the parameter on every reboot.
Maybe a special kernel config option is enough too, I don't know.
> It has a microsoft mouse compatible trackball built into the keyboard.
If it doesn't look to linux like it's connected to your serial port, you
might have a problem getting the thing to work as a mouse. YMMV.
Cheers,
Joost
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