[K12OSN] Are Digital PC 500s kosher?

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 22:05, Alan A Hodson wrote:

> Just came across a school that has a load of Digital PC 500 (Intel 
> 300) collecting dust - Try as I may, I can't get them to act as thin 
> clients, or even load Linux on the HDrive. Tried RealTech NIC cards 
> with booting Rom-O-Matic floppies to no avail. The question seems to 
> revolve around architecture - can any guru or experienced person help 
> clarify if these type of CPUs will work with Linux?

I don't know anything about them, but you could try downloading the
'universal boot floppy' from the thinstation project to see if any
of the included drivers match.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/thinstation/

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