[LUNI] Compaq and Linux

[James Velguth]

Its an old chip, thats the box I had before my PII.  I as trying to 
install on the IDE drive but I found that era AMD chip was not the 
slightest bit compatable with NT.  Its still sits with Win 3.1 on it.
I'l follow the last recomendation and try one of the live versions 
before I declare it totally useless.

Jeff Jirsa wrote:

>What happened when you tried to install NT? Did it not find the hard
>drive or something?
>If you have a SCSI controller in the box that would be a big reason why
>it wouldn't install.
>What kind of AMD chip is in the box?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: luni-bounces at luni.org [mailto:luni-bounces at luni.org] On Behalf Of
>James Velguth
>Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:36 PM
>To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
>Subject: Re: [LUNI] Compaq and Linux
>
>
>While I am at it, I also have an old AMD machine that would not take Win
>
>NT.  Could it take Linux?
>Thanks again
>
>David Horton wrote:
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>>James Velguth wrote:
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>>>Hi All,
>>>  I have reciently aquired a Compaq Presario 850.  Don't know if it
>>>works yet but before I play with it I'd like to know if Linux runs on
>>>Compaq and what distro would you recomend?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>Jim
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>>Way back in the day I installed Linux on an 850R.  I think it was
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>Redhat
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>>6.  I do remember the SCSI controller is a Symbios 8xx and the NIC is a
>>NC31xx, which pretty much any distro should support.  I think the video
>>memory is pretty slim on these machines so don't expect to enjoy hours
>>of Tux Racer.  But for a server with text console-only, it's okay.
>>
>>Dave
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