[huskerlug] Re: SCSI on a 486?

        You don't have to that far back!   Star Office 5.1 would run on a
2.2 kernel.  I have SuSE 6.3 run comfortably on 32 meg machines.  So, 
2.0 kernels or earlier shouldn't have to be used.   ---Jim



On Tuesday 29 July 2003 07:01, you wrote:
> having been using (and collecting) Linux since 1997, I
> do have Slackware since 3.2... Mandrake since 6.0, Red
> Hat since 4.2, and others... Old kernels are
> smaller... Need less ram, since I only have 28Mb.
>
> --- Jim Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >     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...
>
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