Old 486 computer & external CD reader advice needed

[Thomas Taylor]

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 00:25, Rickey Moore wrote:
> 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
>
>>>>> snip <<<<<

Thanks to all you guys who replied.  Some good suggestions that I will play 
with as time allows and get back with the results when I have any.

Thanks,
Tom

-- 
Tom Taylor
Linux user #263467
Federal Way, WA