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- From: lpickup@xanadu.btv.ibm.com (Lance Pickup)
- Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 57 486SLC2
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.140847.22906@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:08:47 GMT
- Reply-To: lpickup@vnet.ibm.com
- References: <1992Nov12.221819.237@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Nov13.092816.28740@aston.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov13.092816.28740@aston.ac.uk>, evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
- |> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
- |> : pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus Rodriguez) writes:
- |> : >I have read the FAQ list and it talks alot about the 386/486 AT-bus but
- |> : >doesn't rule out MCA machines. SO will LINUX run on an IBM PS/2 MCA 386 or
- |> : >higher?
- |> :
- |> : No.
- |>
- |> Well it is more a sort of yes and no
- |>
- |> Linux will run, it just won't talk to anything in the MCA slots.
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- It won't even get that far on my Mod 70. I get very strange results like
- having to hold down a key to get it to do anything, and the screen blanking
- every second. I do make it past the printer check now, but I never make
- it to the hard disk check.
-
- |> Which for all practical purposes means you can't get very far
- |> unless you just want to play with a floppy based unix :-)
- |> :
- |> : Using the harddisk with MCA is different than using it with ISA, and
- |> : it seems that there is no documentation available on how it is done.
- |> : Which means that people with MCA machines who wish to use Linux
- |> : continue wishing.
- |> --
- |> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> Mark Evans |evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk
- |> +(44) 21 565 1979 (Home) |evansmp@cs.aston.ac.uk
- |> +(44) 21 359 6531 x4039 (Office) |
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- --
- ...Lance
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