[huskerlug] Re: SCSI on a 486?

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I agree.  For a firewall, I've used Debian Woody with 2.4.15=20
kernel on a 486 firewall with 8 megs of ram.  Only started to=20
have problems when I started running caching dns, dhcp server,=20
and added an additional 1000 connection tracking entries for the=20
iptables stateful packet watching.  The box is still sitting=20
under the counter for backup should my replacement P133 firewall=20
kick out.  The install was tiresome - had to use the floppies -=20
but the rest was a sinch when I did the rest through apt-get.

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 04:17 pm, you wrote:
> 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...
> >
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > Patrick, Freedom Advocate
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J.R. Wessels
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