According to Kenneth Stephen: While burning my CPU.
>
> Richard,
>
> Do you know for sure that Slackware supports MCA? I know for a
> fact that Redhat doesnt. I was under the impression that Debian was the
> only distro which supported MCA.
On my slackware 3.4 disk in /bootdsks.144 there is even a file called
ibmmca.s so it should be posssable.
As to which bootdisk will support the rest of his system i dont know, but a
look at;
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~cpbeaure/mca-linux.html
should help further.
>
> Kenneth
>
> There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
>
> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU.
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I'm real new at Linux, just tried installing Slackware for a couple hours
> > > today, but it wouldn't work. I was just wondering if anyone knew if there
> > > were any, any at all, problems with using Slackware (any version) on an
> > > old IBM PS/2 with MCA, Intel 386 25 MHz, 14.7 Mb RAM, 153 Mb SCSI HD, PS/2
> > > port mouse, and a small color monitor.
> >
> > None that i know of, execpt if you dont have the correct boot disk for a
> > scsi controler then it wont work.
> >
> > Here is a small sumary of scsi controlers and thier respective disks.
> >
> > SCSI controller bootdisks: 7000fast.s, advansys.s, aha152x..s, aha1542.s,
> > aha1740.s, aha2x4x.s, am53c974.s, buslogic.s,
> > dtc3280.s, eata_dma.s, eata_isa.s, eata_pio.s,
> > fdomain.s, in2000.s, iomega.s, n53c406a.s,
> > n_5380.s, n_53c7xx.s, pas16.s, qlog_fas.s,
> > qlog_isp.s, seagate.s, trantor.s, ultrastr.s,
> > ustor14f.s
> >
> > If you have no idea which SCSI controller your machine has, you can also
> > try the generic SCSI bootdisk "scsi.s". You can determine what controller
> > type you have by watching the boot messages. Then, you should make the
> > bootdisk that matches your controller and use that to install. (Since the
> > scsi.s kernel is loaded with SCSI drivers, it consumes quite a bit of
> > memory
> > that the disks designed for a single SCSI controller do not)
> >
> > extracht from /cdrom/bootdsks.144/WHICH.ONE
> >
> > Next time please explane what you are doing, what you are using (disk names)
> > in this case, and what happens when you try to install or start to install,
> > to the point of exacht error messages and the commands given, that will get
> > you a more spesific answer and help us see what you are doing wrong.
> >
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Rob
> > >
> > > --
> > > --------
> > > Rob Radez
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Not even experienced enough to be called a Linux Newbie...
> >
> > Now thats an honest signature.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards Richard.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>
>
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Regards Richard.
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