<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Good news - the first cpu I grabbed from my discarded stack has 512MB memory and a 541 MHZ celron processor.</span></div><div><span>I has Usb 2 isa card slots and it can boot fro a cdrom.</span></div><div><span>I turned it on and it went into bios - no hard drive!<br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Next step is to put my old cards in it and try to load linux....<br></span></div><div> </div><div>There is still a bug in the program must use RAID!<br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Thad Ward <coderjoe69@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug@grlug.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1:18 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GRLUG] Old isa motherboard & linux<br> </font> </div> <br>
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:36AM, Michael Mol <<a ymailto="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com" href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>>You can still use a modern kernel with really old hardware. You just<br>>need to strip everything you're not going to use (so, just about<br>>everything), and optionally enable stuff like "optimize for size".<br>>Yanking out a lot of enabled-by-default stuff would also help.<br><br>I think that depends on the hardware. Drivers for different pieces of old<br>hardware could be buggy in newer kernels due to lack of testing, or<br>just be omitted entirely due to being broken and/or unmaintained.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>grlug mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>