My old 486 didn't have a builtin CDROM. I had an Adaptec 1542b and an
external SCSI CD ROM. Redhat, Mandrake, etc all work just fine with
that setup. The CD can be from a mac or sun as well. Any SCSI CD-ROM
drive will work with CDs in the boxed set (stamped). Older drives can
have issues
I have a friend at work who has an older i486 and wants to install
Linux onto it, perhaps to run Apache or something. The problem is that
he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it. I know that the IDE driver
is built into the Linux kernel (or I think it is), but his is a SCSI
model -- it's a
Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a friend at work who has an older i486 and wants to install
Linux onto it, perhaps to run Apache or something. The problem is that
he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it. I know that the IDE driver
Does he have a supported network card in
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On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Erik Price wrote:
I have a friend at work who has an older i486 and wants to install
Linux onto it, perhaps to run Apache or something. The problem is that
he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it. I know that the IDE
