Re: 486 SX

2002-02-18 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Am Montag, 18. Februar 2002 00:26 schrieb Tom Cook: Heck, why not buy a few cheapy nics and build a beowulf cluster? *grin* One of our departments here are rumored to have a large number (ie. hundreds) of 486s running such a cluster, and it is very nice, so I am told... Tom Yeah, sounds

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-18 Thread Tom Cook
Christian Schoenebeck wrote: Am Montag, 18. Februar 2002 00:26 schrieb Tom Cook: Heck, why not buy a few cheapy nics and build a beowulf cluster? *grin* One of our departments here are rumored to have a large number (ie. hundreds) of 486s running such a cluster, and it is very nice,

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Rob Ransbottom wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: | I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX | (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) | before they go to the rubbish. | I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail | (exim, mutt

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-15 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: | I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX | (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) | before they go to the rubbish. | I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail | (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, etc

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-15 Thread Gerard Robin
Confirme is what I have done is relatively suitable. I can put hda1=40 Mb and hda2=8 Mb for my disk is too small. -- Gerard PS. 4 Mb of RAM is not enough I had to put 8 Mb to make it work. Perhaps it's possible with slink but not with potato. (on my machine 486 SX daewoo) -- Gerard

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:54:56PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: I downloaded the 6 diskets 1.44 driver1 2 and all worked fine until I get Next: install base system. I put driver1-bin in the floppy but I got this anser: wrong disk you need disk1 of series the base series. Where are

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-15 Thread Michel Loos
to make it work. Perhaps it's possible with slink but not with potato. (on my machine 486 SX daewoo) -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-14 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: | hello, | I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX | (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) | before they go to the rubbish. | I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail | (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
I have potato on a 486SX, 25MHz, 300MB hard drive, 8MB RAM. It tends to drag because it swaps a lot, but otherwise is fully functional. I had it masquerading the dial-up connection with no problems. The reason I don't have it masquerading the DSL connection is I don't want to buy a second ISA

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
On Thursday 14 February 2002 11:27, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: I have potato on a 486SX, 25MHz, 300MB hard drive, 8MB RAM. It tends to drag because it swaps a lot, but otherwise is fully functional. I had it masquerading the dial-up connection with no problems. The reason I don't have it

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
to the internet and all is ok :- - Original Message - From: John Cichy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection) On Thursday 14 February 2002 11:27, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: I have

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.14 17:35:55 +0100 John Cichy wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2002 11:27, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: The reason I don't have it masquerading the DSL connection is I don't want to buy a second ISA NIC. If your DSL is anything like mine, you don't have to. I have all my machines

Fwd: Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection) [gwizard@aplicall.com]

2002-02-14 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
; archive/latest/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:27 PM Subject: Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection) I have potato on a 486SX, 25MHz, 300MB hard drive, 8MB RAM. It tends to drag because it swaps a lot, but otherwise is fully functional. I had it masquerading the dial-up

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
Yes this clears it up, I'm not using ppp (or pptp) so I forgot all about it being considered an interface. apt-get upgrade brain :) John On Thursday 14 February 2002 13:31, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: On 2002.02.14 17:35:55 +0100 John Cichy wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2002 11:27, Matijs

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: ... I too thought that putting the DSL modem on the hub (actually a switch in my case) wasn't the Right Way. | The 486 that connects to the internet also does the masquearading. All | traffic flow to eth0, and gets masq'd, but

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:48:41PM -0500, dman scribbled... On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: ... I too thought that putting the DSL modem on the hub (actually a switch in my case) wasn't the Right Way. | The 486 that connects to the internet also does

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
On Thursday 14 February 2002 14:48, dman wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: ... I too thought that putting the DSL modem on the hub (actually a switch in my case) wasn't the Right Way. | The 486 that connects to the internet also does the

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread Game Wizard
@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:48 PM Subject: Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection) On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: ... I too thought that putting the DSL modem on the hub (actually a switch in my case) wasn't the Right Way. | The 486

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:16:47PM +0200, Game Wizard wrote: | umm, perhaps i am wrong as i don't know what kind of switch do u have but | isn't switch's purphose is to divide the network into subnets ??! A router would do that. A switch is a link-layer device. It is the same as a hub, but

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
. :) - Original Message - From: dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:48 PM Subject: Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection) On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: ... I too thought that putting the DSL

486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Gerard Robin
hello, I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) before they go to the rubbish. I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, etc..) but my CD-ROM drive is ignored by the bios of these machines

RE: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: 486 SX hello, I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) before they go to the rubbish. I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail (exim, mutt

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Mark Janssen
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote: hello, I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) before they go to the rubbish. It will be a really painful and slow task... but it'll work... provided they have some decent

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Johannes Franken
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: but my CD-ROM drive is ignored by the bios of these machines and so I must install linux with diskets 1.44, but I have two questions: is it possible to do it ? Installing debian from floppy disks is no problem at all. And if it's

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Michel Loos
Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 15:40, Mark Janssen escreveu: On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote: hello, I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) before they go to the rubbish. It will be a really painful

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 15:40, Mark Janssen escreveu: On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote: hello, I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) before they go

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Michel Loos
Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 21:49, Seneca Cunningham escreveu: Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Qua, 2002-02-13 às 15:40, Mark Janssen escreveu: On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote: hello, I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Matthew Dalton
Seneca Cunningham wrote: Do think it is possible for me to get it onto my 386 with 1M RAM? I think you might be struggling with only 1Mb of ram to get any Linux distribution running. Even Small Linux (http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/) requires a 386 with 2Mb ram.

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Seneca Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... Do think it is possible for me to get it onto my 386 with 1M RAM? I can do my own compiling on a pentium, but I would need to get it onto 1.2M floppies (I can't get into my 386's BIOS, so it can't boot off of its 1.4M drive (only the

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:49:04PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) before they go to the rubbish. I must disagree here, worked for me on 386 with 4MB RAM, just forget about

Linux on 486 sx

1998-04-02 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
Have you ever experienced runnning an IRC client over XWindows in an old Intel 486SX33? Alguem jah executou um clint de IRC num 486 dentro do X Windows? Eu vou ter que usar uns 486 fuleragens com IRC. (Um bom e facil de usar)/X Windows/Linux/Intel 486 33. TIA