7 Dec
1998
7 Dec
'98
3:17 a.m.
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:19:51 -0700 (MST)
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Adam Fritzler <afritz(a)delphid.ml.org>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Linux Q's
X-To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Aaron Christopher Finney wrote:
If you find an website called MCA linux (has moved to different site)
http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/
the current linux kernel in it is 2.0.35. That person on that
website prefers no development kernels that other dirburations had
are always development kernel which I confirmed that when I d/l'ed
both types. That "MCA linux" worked on my P75 (8573-401)!
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
The MCA support has just started picking up steam again. Alan Cox has
started having fun with it, which usually means it will work quite nicely!
MCA support will finally be at decent capacity in mainstream kernels
starting with 2.2.x (as of yet no released). However, I don't know of any
standard Linux distribution that currently has built-in MCA support.
Although, I think I saw an mcascsi.s boot disk in Slackware 3.6. There's
a web page floating around that links to hacked-up MCA-capable boot disks
for Red Hat, etc.
I've got many PS/2 55SX's (386sx-16, MCA+ESDI only) running Linux. They
run suprisingly well (good use for all those boxes and boxes of MCA token
ring and ethernet cards it seems _everyone_ has laying around :).
af
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