[plug] Linux on Valuepoint

[Colin.Wagnell at bankwest.com.au]

Thanks for the info. There is a PDF file at this location that contains the
specifications of the machine
but the link is no longer active. I haven't been able to find the info yet.

I have resolved the problem though...

Would you believe that the problem seems to have been bad media. After
trying two different floppy disks I thought there was a good chance it
wasn't media, but I was wrong. I have since tried another floppy and I now
have Redhat 5.2 running nicely. Some network issues, but otherwise quite
stable.

Suffice to say that those floppies are now residing at the local tip...

Colin





Denis Brown <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au> on 29/06/99 12:16:32

Please respond to plug at linux.org.au

To:   plug at linux.org.au
cc:    (bcc: Colin Wagnell/PRS/SS/BankWest)
Subject:  Re: [plug] Linux on Valuepoint




Colin,

Information on the 6472-L0D can be found at
http://www.pc.ibm.com/support?page=6472-L0D&lang=en_US&x=10&y=7  or if that
breaks, just go to www.ibm.com and then support and finally, enter your
model number.

It seems this started life as a diskless workstation, is this correct?  No
idea what bus it uses (not looked that far) but I can vouch for the fact
that some ValuePoints can host Linux.  I have had one working for nearly a
year now, an elderly 486SX33, and am principally using it as a poor-man's
WINS server using SAMBA.  My OS is Debian, recently upgraded from hamm to
slink with no modifications (i.e. have not built a specific kernel for it.)
 My 486 box is an (E?)ISA architecture machine, a 6384-K3G  No experience
(yet) with Linux on MCA machines.

HTH,
Denis








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