On Wednesday 01 February 2006 00:25, Rickey Moore wrote: > Thomas Taylor <linxt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi All: > > The bus > structure is ISA with room for two cards. > > not sure if it would work as the BIOS doesn't allow booting from anything > except the floppy or hard drive. > How about installing to an old cast-off HD on another machine, and then > transfering that drive to this machine? Good ole 486 ought to run faster > with Linux on it than Winblows. I used a 486/66 with 16 megs of memory to > service 4 modems, two 8 serial port dickens terminal servers which had a > collection of terminals, XT's and 286's running procomm. One day I had > about 12 users on the terminals and all 4 modems lit up with users, all > playing in nightmare mud OS, and running editors, and I cranked up Doom II > on the server. It was slow as heck, but the fact that it ran at all was > pretty great! Enjoy dinking around with it! > > The harddrive install ought to work... Ric > >>>>> snip <<<<< Thanks to all you guys who replied. Some good suggestions that I will play with as time allows and get back with the results when I have any. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA
