[huskerlug] Re: SCSI on a 486?

What SCSI card are you using?  Some SCSI cards have sufficiently good
I/O that you can boot of them, other cards, no dice.  I had a real nice
scsi card from my IBM Valuepoint.  The card was a VESA card and I could
boot from it.

You should be able to boot from floppy just enough to get the scsi card
going and the boot from CD.  Something like a "SCSI" boot image in the
image directory would have scsi drivers and a bootable kernel.

As it is, I haven't tried to install linux on "old iron" since it was
"new iron".  My IBM 486/66 loved Linux (RH 4.2) w/ dialup.  Nifty.

I've been tempted to fire up Old linux on New iron (rather than new
linux on old iron).  I can't image how quick an old 1.7 kernel running
FWWM on an AMD 2200+ would be.  But of course finding drivers would be a
pain...

Carl
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 12:02, Patrick wrote:
> I have a lot of loose hardware, that I have collected
> cheaply.  So, I am building several projects
> con-currently. 
> 
> I have some (6 CDROMS, 8 SCSI hard drives) SCSI
> stuff...
> and about 30 mainboards,
> 26 cases... 5 monitors, 38 keyboards...etc...
> 
> So, it is no pain to build a system, make it run,
> play, learn...
> 
> I am right now going to try building my SCSI system,
> with a 486-66.  Linux, of course.  IBM SCSI cdrom.
> And, I do have a 133mhz Overdrive chip...that I can
> install, anytime!  
> 
> Should I try to boot this with one of the floppy
> distros, FIRST? 
> 
> Have a few questions, in my temerity to just dive
> in... mapbe I should, and then, ask the difficult
> questions, later... Anyone else trying to shoot 'old
> Iron'?
> 
>  
> 
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