[GRLUG] Old isa motherboard & linux

[Joseph McLaughlin]

Good news - the first cpu I grabbed from my discarded stack has 512MB memory and a 541 MHZ celron processor.
I has Usb 2 isa card slots and it can boot fro a cdrom.
I turned it on and it went into bios - no hard drive!


Next step is to put my old cards in it and try to load linux....

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


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 From: Thad Ward <coderjoe69 at yahoo.com>
To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug at grlug.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Old isa motherboard & linux
 
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:36AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

>You can still use a modern kernel with really old hardware. You just
>need to strip everything you're not going to use (so, just about
>everything), and optionally enable stuff like "optimize for size".
>Yanking out a lot of enabled-by-default stuff would also help.

I think that depends on the hardware. Drivers for different pieces of old
hardware could be buggy in newer kernels due to lack of testing, or
just be omitted entirely due to being broken and/or unmaintained.

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