Thus spake Mark Carey on this Sun, 26 Jan 2003 : ] Hi, ] In true geek fashion I went away for a holiday, did some consulting work ] and ended up with a project machine. Long story ....
I would suggest, d/l gentoo onto a grunty machine, set the compile flags for the Cyrix 486, then transfer the result. ] Specs: ] Cyrix 486 DX2 66 MHz ] 8 MB Ram (Single SIMM) ] 4DVS 2.0 Motherboard, (1 ISA 8 Bit, 3 ISA 16 Bit, 3 VESA) - Unknown ] Manufacturer (Tomato?) ] Creative Sound Blaster 16 (CT2910, IDE, Panasonic CDROM "IDE like" ] connector) ] * 1 SAMSUNG HDD ] * 1 Creative CDROM CD400T ] Trident TVGA-9000i-1 Video (ISA) ] ISA Controller Card (COM/Parallel etc ports ...) ] * 1 Conner HDD [snip] ] process are getting killed but why? Is it time for memtest86? Yes. Always. I made a memtest floppy "dd if=memtest.bin of=/dev/floppy" when I added some cheap second hand ram recently. Nice little bootable floppy. So easy to do yet probably very valuable. I probably haven't appreciated the true value because all my ram was OK. I'd _always_ use it on an old PC that's been recovered from the dust heap. Yuri
