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

[Jamie Chamoulos -- Internet.Now!]

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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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
> 
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