With a lot of blood sweat and tears, it could be done. I would say wander down to the
local flea market and see what you can find. Heck, most of the local companies are not
holding onto anything slower than 200Mhz where I live anymore, which means people such
as myself get ahold of them and then will toss their old 486's. (If you wanted to pay
shipping, I'll send you one) If your running a 56K modem, even the lowest 386sx16 will
run STN with full speed. Only if you are using DSL or Cable or such things would you
need a faster machine. And certainly a K6 is overkill. :-)
Craig
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:06:02
Farouche wrote:
>I have had a freind (A Linux expert) talking about problems with IBM MCA and
>older Linux kernels (like STN), and I really tend to believe that, since the
>machine just refuses to run STN no matter what is done to it.
>
>Is there any way that I can update the STN kernel ??
>
>
>Farouche
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "C Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 8:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [ShareTheNet] 486 won't start STN
>
>
>> I have a 386, DEFINITELY no math coprocessor, and it works fine.
>>
>> Most of the time when I have had these kinds of bootup problems, it has
>been
>> either a bad disk, or a disk that I failed to reformat before building a
>new
>> STN image, or some entry in the setup that was bad (like leaving the 0x
>off
>> the I/O address or something).
>>
>> > Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:42:38 -0600
>> > From: "Don Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Subject: Re: [ShareTheNet] 486 won't start STN
>> >
>> >
>> > I maybe wrong but, stn complied to run on systems with mathco
>> procesor.....
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Farouche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 9:36 AM
>> > Subject: [ShareTheNet] 486 won't start STN
>> >
>> >
>> > > Hi all
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I have been running Share The Net on a K6-2 machine
>> > > for a while now, but now
>> > > have got my hands on an 486 that I would like to use
>> > > for STN so The K6
>> > > machine is free to use as webserver/SQL server.
>> > >
>> > > My problem is that the 486 won't start STN.
>> > >
>> > > It reaches the line saying "Loading initrd.qz..." when
>> > > if freeze up with the
>> > > disk light still on.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The machine config is as follows :
>> > >
>> > > IBM PS1 486 SX 33
>> > >
>> > > 16 M Ram
>> > >
>> > > Onboard CL-GD5426 1024 Video Controller
>> > >
>> > > 1 Planet NE2000 Comp ISA netcard
>> > >
>> > > 1 D-Link D220 ISA netcard
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The same error happens if I try to boot STN from HD
>> > >
>> > > But I am able to boot dos and e.g. run Partition Magic
>> > > (Dos) without any
>> > > problems
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Does anyone have any idea about what is wrong here
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Farouche
>> > >
>>
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