Hi Greg. As far as I know you can put any size drive you want in an old system like that and under Linux it will work. Yes the bios may only be able to see 2 GB, but fdisk that comes with Linux will work with it anyway. Feel free to stick a larger drive in the machine if you wish. As to playing with distros that support network based boots your probably stuck with rolling your own or using some sort of clustering solution. Rolling your own could be quite fun. If you wish to do this I suggest starting by compiling the Linux From Scratch distro so you get a really good idea how things work under the hood if your not too good at the Linux boot process and modifying this after you get the basic system installed and you can modify it so that you can access it as an nfs root device. Have fun. Tommy On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:20:31PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all. > > Well, the box on which I did my debian install had its hard drive die, > which probably explains some of the weird problems I posted about > during the install. > > Anyway, this machine is a AMD k5 133 MHz, with 40 mb of ram. Since > the hd was a 1.2 GB, and since I very much doubt this motherboard can > take anything higher then 2 GB, replacing the hd isn't an option. > > Since this box still has a working 3c905c card, I thought I could use > it as a dumb terminal. So, does anyone know of a distro designed for > booting over the network? > Thanks. > > Greg > > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
