[Coco] DriveWire

[David Hazelton]

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.