[GRLUG] Old isa motherboard & linux

[Cprossu]

It all depends on what kernel you run and the hardware you get access to,
how many ISA slots you need, or if heaven-forbid you need EISA or VESA
local bus.
If you already have the hardware, post it's specs here, including
everything you know.
Slot A Athlon boards (like the MSI MS-6167 for an example) have a couple of
ISA slots, and a processor new enough to run whatever you need, and there
are P3 (slot 1 and socket 370) boards like that too.
If you need 4 or more ISA slots, you'd be looking at a either strange
hardware and backplanes or real vintage hardware.

Either way if you plan to use kernel 2.4 there's a lot you can get away
with, vintage hardware wise. Your requirements will be at least a 486 with
72pin simms (because the ram isn't made of unobtainium), and at least 32mb
of that to do anything, but you'll want at least 128mb.

So I ask, what specialized ISA card, cards do you need to run with this
machine, because that has more to do with this than you might think.
-Andrew Lewton (Cprossu)

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just an anecdote, on a whim I tried installing
> KNOPPIX on a machine of about that vintage
> a few years ago. Version 5.3 I think.
>
> For whatever reason, it installed, and worked
> just fine.  An ASUS board with an 80386, IDE,
> etc.  It still works.
>
> I think if this says anything, it says one can
> never be sure. I imagine there is a list somewhere
> of what CPU's the latest kernels officially support.
>
>    -- Bob
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Joseph McLaughlin <jwm8351 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> I would like to install ubuntu on an old isa based computer - (ide drives
>> - no usb support - etc)
>>
>> Needs:
>> Isa card support
>> ability to have the isa computer talk to other computers on my lan.
>> could use client / server hook up via c program?
>> multi tasking.
>> able to run C, or php (java is probally to large)
>>
>> Problems:
>> I don't think ubuntu will work on such an old machine.
>>
>> Any ideas.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Joe
>>
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