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
> Internet.Now!
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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]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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
