Re: Vintage 486 - how far can I push it?

[Jamie Chamoulos -- Internet.Now!]

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Jamie Chamoulos
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Rodney Mishima wrote:

> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:31:09 -0800
> From: Rodney Mishima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Vintage 486 - how far can I push it?
> 
> Jamie,
> 
> This machine does not have a network card or modem. When I abandoned it, I
> went for a laptop; so I presently don't have a monitor. But, I did get a
> CD-Rewriter for the laptop, which is external SCSI (connected to the laptop
> via a PCMCIA card). So, I can temporarily disconnect it from the laptop and
> use it for a plain CD-ROM during Linux install.
> 
> Fortunately, the Sound Blaster 16 w. SCSI-2 has the equivalent of an Adaptec
> 15xx, which seems to fall into place and work with many OSes(eg. OS/2, NT. I
> even tried a Slackware about 4 years ago and the SCSI stuff worked, but not
> X-Windows).
> 
> I never tried to install an internal CD-ROM drive because the case is a
> mini-tower and everything is jammed tight inside. With 2 HDs and 2 Floppy
> drives, I don't know if there is room for another internal drive. There may
> still be an available expansion slot (ISA), but if I'm lucky I'll be able to
> do an install w/o having to mess w. the insides.
> 
> Rodney
> 
> "Jamie Chamoulos -- Internet.Now!" wrote:
> 
> > Rodney,
> >         yeah... ive installed on even less than that! I have a machine
> > running linux on a 135 meg hdd! (no xwindows... but servers!) its quite
> > possible. it will be easier if you can pop in a cdrom (specially a fast
> > one...) but its also possible to do a netboot/install.
> >
> > Jamie
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> > Jamie Chamoulos
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> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Rodney Mishima wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 20:40:23 -0800
> > > From: Rodney Mishima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Vintage 486 - how far can I push it?
> > >
> > > Dear Eugene Lug members,
> > >
> > > I gave away an old 486 about 2 years ago and recently had it returned to
> > > me. It is from about 8 years ago w. the following:
> > >
> > > 486/33  pre-Local bus, pre-PCI, fortunately not SX
> > >
> > > 32MB RAM consisting of 8 SIMMs of  4MB 30-pin 70ns
> > >
> > > 2 IDE Hard drives:
> > >     master:  1.2 GB
> > >     slave:    340MB
> > >
> > > 2 serial ports upgraded to 66550 UART
> > > 1 parallel port
> > >
> > > Sound Blaster 16 w. SCSI-2: ( had an external SCSI CD-ROM, but currently
> > > none)
> > >
> > > Keyboard is AT (pre-PS/2)
> > >
> > > Mouse uses a COM port since no PS/2
> > >
> > > ISA video card: Diamond SpeedStar Apline series w. 1MB video RAM
> > >
> > > DTC EIDE BIOS ISA card to allow LBA access to hard disks larger than 525
> > > MB
> > >
> > > 3.5" and 5-1/4" floppy drives
> > >
> > > I will bring this to the lab session tomorrow. If anyone is willing to
> > > bring any surplus stuff that would improve upon the above configuration,
> > > I would appreciate it.
> > >
> > > Has anyone had successful Linux install w. a simliar configuration or
> > > know of any components that are supported by Linux?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for all the help I will get tomorrow.
> > >
> > > Rodney
>