[Gllug] free (very very old) kit

[William Palfreman]

Take my advice and use Pentiums (75s 100s).  These will have real pci
slots (so you can use nics that actaully work!) and come with 16Mb ram -
running in 8Mb on a 486 is a massive pain.  Plus P75s generally have
two IDE controllers to the 486s typical one, so if you have a dodgy
cable-to-intself hard disk you can definely attach a CDROM.  Also
modern cdroms are genereally too fast for old 486s, and cause the
install to fail.

Anyway, you can't go wrong with P75s for low-end work, and they cost next
to nothing these days.

On 21 Aug 2001, Jon Masters wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like a couple of old 486s if you (or anyone else) how them going
> - mostly for friends who need help setting up simple firewall boxes for
> their cable subscriptions and to run a simple distributed vpn accross
> Nottingham next term.
>
> --jcm
>
>
>
>


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