[huskerlug] Re: SCSI on a 486?

        Now that isn't a whole lot of RAM.  It sounds like you do need a 
2.2 kernel, something like SuSE 6.3, 6.4, etc.  I don't know what 
the RedHat version would be, but for a workstation, you may have a 
hard time getting any meaningful graphics.
        If you have some IDE CD-drives that didn't depend on the 
connection from the main board, you could stick in one which had 
it's own interface card and that should work.  I know I've done 
that.
        I'll be interested if you and get one of the pudgy 2.4.xx kernels
shoehorned into that machine and having it work.   ---Jim


On Monday 28 July 2003 17:39, you wrote:
> The Vesa card is an Adaptec AHA-2842VL, with floppy
> and SCSI connectors.  I am wondering about the RAM on
> the mainboard.  It has 4 of the 72 pin slots.  When I
> put in 8MB DIMMs, it adds them, except for the last
> slot, which seems to be limited to 4MB of address...
> So,
> no matter the size of the ram Dimms, I get 28MB
> instead of the 32 mb, when I install four 8mb sticks!
>
> Soyo /Sis board, w/ four ISA, and Four PCI slots...
>
> So, I put three 8 Mb sticks, for 24 Mb... I guess that
> will do for a 486DX-66.  The SCSI drive I will start
> with is a 1995 IBM 1Gb drive... and, if successful,
> maybe another drive will follow.  Have some Micropolis
> 1Gb drives handy...
>
> Might try morphix or knoppix, from an ISA CD?
>
> --- Carl Lundstedt <clundst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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
>
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