On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dean Coffey wrote: > based on Slack 3.5, and Slack has the reputation from what I've been able to > determine for having the best support for an MCA based system. Therefore, > I'm assuming (and we all know what *that* leads to) that BL should work > pretty well, unless the MCA support wasn't stable in Slack 3.5.
Initial patches for MCA support were available as of 2.0.7. It's included in 2.2.x kernels by default. If you haven't already done so, you'll probably want to follow the MCA links given at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/motherboards.html > So, my questions are: Has anyone attempted using BL with an MCA based PS/2 > or other system? Not I. > PS/2 Specs > 100 MHz 486 processor > 32 Megs RAM > HD #1 1 Gig Micropolis SCSI, partitioned in two 500 Meg slices, one of > which has DR-DOS 7 installed. Second Partition is where I would like to > install BL. > HD #2 270 Meg IBM SCSI, partitioned into a 142 Meg drive (app), and a 128 > Meg drive, which I plan to use for a swap file > XGA video card (512K memory, I think) > US Robotics Sportster 28.8 external modem > IBM 9515 Monitor On the surface, this seems workable. Hopefully after delving into the harware how-to's you'll still find that to be the case. - Steve
