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

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Move the Hard Drive temp. to another machine.  Just do the final
configuration in the old 386, or do a NFS install.



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...)
> 
> 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).
> 
> Greg
> 
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