Old 486 computer & external CD reader advice needed

[Rickey Moore]

Thomas Taylor <linxt at comcast.net> wrote: Hi All:

The bus 
structure is ISA with room for two cards.

not sure if it would work as the BIOS doesn't allow booting from anything 
except the floppy or hard drive.
How about installing to an old cast-off HD on another machine, and then transfering that drive to this machine? Good ole 486 ought to run faster with Linux on it than Winblows. I used a 486/66 with 16 megs of memory to service 4 modems, two 8 serial port dickens terminal servers which had a collection of terminals, XT's and 286's running procomm. One day I had about 12 users on the terminals and all 4 modems lit up with users, all playing in nightmare mud OS, and running editors, and I cranked up Doom II on the server. It was slow as heck, but the fact that it ran at all was pretty great! Enjoy dinking around with it! 

The harddrive install ought to work... Ric




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