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Even with Cable, a 486 is plenty fast. The 10 Mbit card is still
faster than anything that comes down the cable.
Chris
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From: "Craig Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ShareTheNet] 486 won't start STN
> 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
> --
>
> 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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