Re: Status of MCA support?

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:22:12 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Anthony, Alan.

>>> of temporarily transferring the hard drive to a 286-based IBM PS/2

> 286? I think your going to face a more fundemental problem before
> Linux MCA compatability. Well there's always the 286 to 386 or the
> 286 to 486 CPU upgrade chips.

Anthony: Where did I say anything about trying to run Linux on a 286 ???

>>> of temporarily transferring the hard drive to a 286-based IBM PS/2
>>> that was also donated to me, formatting it and installing MS-DOS
>>> 6.22 thereon, then transferring it back and booting it off that
>>> so I can get hold of the system specs...then, when I know enough
>>> about it to start work, having a go at installing Linux on it...

>> Ask altavista for +linux +mca. Happy reading. You should be fine

Alan: Many thanks for that - the first five were dud links, but the
rest provided some VERY useful pages...

Best wishes from Riley.

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