On Tuesday 24 May 2005 13:12, Amol Hatwar wrote:

BTW, I have a 80386 board lying somewhere with a AMD CPU and IIT

That should be ITI?

Co-prcessor 4MB Ram. Lemme know if anyone is interested :)

U will need an isa hdd/fdd controller with separate cable for head and controller. I have a 1994 (afair) 486 -66 working with 16mb. Used to run RH linux 6.0. strictly no X. I dont have an old 200mb disk. The bios cant recognize a larger drive and the 16bit isa card is too slow for a new 2gb drive. But i should be able to make it whiz with some floppy based linux. Also i remember having to do a low level format on the 10MB drives before partitioning. One method was to run debug and jmp to 0x5c ( afair). This would start a low level format. Also have a massive hard drive with a transparent top which lets u see the inside of the drive, platter, filters, head et al. connectors are oxidised tho. Should keep all the junk running. Should be a hearty laugh 30 yrs from now.

rgds jtd