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

[Bob Deep <bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Worst case, you could just take your hard drive to another machine,
install linux on it there (Including lilo on the MBR and such) then just
put the drive into the old box and it will boot just fine... (If you
build a kernel, be sure to build it for a 386!).

Once you get linux up and your nic working... the rest is a peice of
cake with ftp..

-= bob =-

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...)
> 
> I really don't want to invest any money into this beast, as it's not worth
> it.  I just want to mess around with it and learn some stuff.  It all works,
> complete with a spiffy little 80MB hard drive.  What's a good way to
> approach it?  Right now, I guess I'm tending toward the floppy route, since
> it's easy (albeit time consuming).
>
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