Re: [aclug-L] Installing on a crusty old machine

[Dale W Hodge <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Greg House wrote:

> I inherited an old 386 after doing an upgrade for a friend.  I'd like to set
> Linux up on it with a couple of NICs to use it as a router.  The problem is
> that it doesn't support any distribution media I have.  I tried to hang an
> IDE CDROM off it, but it's multi-io card is apparently too stupid to talk
> ATAPI to it.
> 
> Should I write an armload of floppies?  Should I use something like Trinux
> or the distribution from the Linux Router Project?  Should I try and set up
> an install off my Zip drive (there's a mini-HOWTO about doing this...)?
> Should I find an ISA SCSI host adaptor and a SCSI CDROM drive to stick in it
> temporarily (more costly then I really want...)
> 

Go the zip drive route. I installed my first system (slackware) off a zip
drive. All you need is a boot disk with the ppa driver.  I think under
slackware this was a separate disk, but I'm unsure how the other dists
handle it.  I say go for it.  I've got an old 386 sitting here that I am
eventually going to attempt doing the same thing on...

 Dale W Hodge  dwh@xxxxxxxx, dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxx  
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