[GRLUG] Old isa motherboard & linux

[Joseph McLaughlin]

The board is in an old 286 made 486 that is full sized and a digital io board with maybe 5 ports (24 lines each) --- by memory.
I also have relay board that uses an isa board, a lpt port and a serial port

I will have to digging thru my old boxes to see what Hardware I have..
If I could add a usb card ---- humm.
Maybe a sata card!!

Could a c program compiled on ubuntu run under msdos?
And did msdos have client server built in?

 
There is still a bug in the program must use RAID!


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 From: Cprossu <cprossu at gmail.com>
To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug at grlug.org> 
Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2012 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Old isa motherboard & linux
 

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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