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- From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Subject: Re: Help wanted - LINUX does not boot on PS/2
- Message-ID: <Bt8qu9.LIs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Keywords: IBM PS/2 boot hanging system
- Sender: randall@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Reply-To: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- References: <2700@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:20:18 GMT
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- avliet@nl.oracle.com (Arrie van der Vliet) writes:
- >I'm new to LINUX, in fact so new that I never saw it running on my own
- >IBM/PS2...
- >[...]
- >My configuration is as follows:
- > An IBM/PS2 model 80 with:
- > 2 IDE harddisks (110 and 70 MByte)
- > 1 3.5" floppy
- > 1 serial Microsoft mouse connected to mouse port
- > 1 serial port card (MCA, 2 extra ports)
- > 1 memory card with 6 MByte of memory
- > 1 VGA monitor
-
- Linux runs only on ISA/EISA based machines. MCA machines cannot
- run it at all (yet... this may or may not change in the future).
- --
- The Upholder of Truth I am not only ready to
- Upholder@uiuc.edu (BSD/ASCII mail) retract this, but also
- jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail) deny I said anything. =)
- wi.4173@wizvax.methuen.ma.us (anon. mail) This is *NOT* CCSO's opinion.
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