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Re: 486 SX



Rob Ransbottom wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +0000, Gerard Robin wrote:
> 
> | I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX
> | (33Mz, 25Mz,  hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb)
> | before they go to the rubbish.
> | I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail
> | (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, etc..)
> | but my CD-ROM drive is ignored by the bios of these machines
> | and so I must install linux with diskets 1.44, but I have two
> | questions:
> | is it possible to do it ? And if it's possible how can I do this.
> | Can someone help me or point the documentation in this matter.

Heck, why not buy a few cheapy nics and build a beowulf cluster?  *grin*

One of our departments here are rumored to have a large number (ie.
hundreds) of 486s running such a cluster, and it is very nice, so I am
told...

Tom



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