From: THE Upholder of Truth (Upholder@uiuc.edu)
Date: 08/19/92 

From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Subject: Re: Help wanted - LINUX does not boot on PS/2
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:20:18 GMT

avliet@nl.oracle.com (Arrie van der Vliet) writes:
>I'm new to LINUX, in fact so new that I never saw it running on my own
>IBM/PS2...
>[...]
>My configuration is as follows:
> An IBM/PS2 model 80 with:
> 2 IDE harddisks (110 and 70 MByte)
> 1 3.5" floppy
> 1 serial Microsoft mouse connected to mouse port
> 1 serial port card (MCA, 2 extra ports)
> 1 memory card with 6 MByte of memory
> 1 VGA monitor

Linux runs only on ISA/EISA based machines. MCA machines cannot
run it at all (yet... this may or may not change in the future). 

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