On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Aaron Christopher Finney wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
>
> > Just to refresh my memory on Linux since I'm just now getting into
> > looking at it, just exactly what machines work well with it, and with
> > what versions/vareities for each? I have tons of machines from IBM 5170
> > AT's, PS/2's of all sorts, other 286 and 386 machines, etc and I'm
286 or less: ELKS or another Linux-8086 package. Never used these, so I
don't know how complete they are.
386sx or higher: standard Linux distributions are fine. Most require at
least 4mb RAM (I've squeezed Slackware into 2.5mb, but it wasn't pretty).
> > looking at possibly selling off the useful ones that will use Linux as
> > cheap as I can to get some room to walk around here.
> >
> > Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
> >
>
> Look over www.linux.org, some good info there. Many of these machines are
> only supported by special ports of Linux (like MCA ps/2's) and they may
The MCA support has just started picking up steam again. Alan Cox has
started having fun with it, which usually means it will work quite nicely!
MCA support will finally be at decent capacity in mainstream kernels
starting with 2.2.x (as of yet no released). However, I don't know of any
standard Linux distribution that currently has built-in MCA support.
Although, I think I saw an mcascsi.s boot disk in Slackware 3.6. There's
a web page floating around that links to hacked-up MCA-capable boot disks
for Red Hat, etc.
I've got many PS/2 55SX's (386sx-16, MCA+ESDI only) running Linux. They
run suprisingly well (good use for all those boxes and boxes of MCA token
ring and ethernet cards it seems _everyone_ has laying around :).
af
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Received on Mon Dec 07 1998 - 16:19:51 GMT