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- From: ljt3@PL122e.cc.lehigh.edu (Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 57 486SLC2
- Message-ID: <LJT3.92Nov13081457@PL122e.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 13:14:57 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.221819.237@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Nov13.092816.28740@aston.ac.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk's message of 13 Nov 92 09: 28:16 GMT
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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.
- >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.
-
- There's another problem with the 57slc (at least the ones we had till
- last monday). They come with a 2.88 meg floppy, and linux doesn't
- understand floppy type 6.
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- Lewis Tanzos - LJT3@PL118a.cc.lehigh.edu
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