[Coco] DriveWire

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 13 April 2009, David Hazelton wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 13 April 2009, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>>> ----- "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:
>>>> From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
>>>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:14:32 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire
>>>>
>>>>> Just show me an example of somebody
>>>>> (not a Microsoft employee or contractor)
>>>>> installing a supported Microsoft OS on
>>>>> bare metal in this millennium.
>>>>
>>>> Been there, done that.  98SE & XP Pro 64 bit.
>>>>
>>>>> I can do it with any of a dozen
>>>>> Linux distros.
>>>>
>>>> In most cases LINUX is easier, but I have one unit that runs a "test"
>>>> of XP
>>>> Pro quite well, but chokes on LINUX.
>>>
>>> Tell me the MOBO models.  I can't think of one that will "test" XP and
>>> won't run Linux.  Does it "run" XP?  And while 98SE isn't quite "this
>>> millennium", I'd like some details as to what kind of bare metal you
>>> inflicted that onto.  As in a decade and a half, I haven't found a system
>>> (386 & up) that wouldn't boot Linux if it booted Windows 3.11 or later.
>>
>> IIRC linux won't run on a 386-SX, or at least I couldn't get it to fly
>> many years ago.  W-95 ran on it ok.  Glacial speeds though...
>
>Well I had a Athlon 600 (the original Athlon Slot-A) that ran 95, 98 and
>wouldn't run 2000 for more than a day before it crashed.  Ran Centos on
>it for years until one of the updates was a kernel update update that
>didn't like the Athlon.  Had to remove the kernel update....That sucked.

Been building my own kernels since about '98 or so.  Currently running 
2.6.29.1-rc2.  I'll probably be on 2.6.30-rc2 in a day or two when its turned 
loose by Linus.

I still have a K6-III 500mhz, but haven't booted it in quite a while.  Ran it 
as a firewall back then.  Now I use an x86 version of dd-wrt on a stripped out 
K6-II, no drives, boots from a CF card in an ide-cf adapter.  A full router 
setup.


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