cluster

[David Nicol]

There's this very old and neearly dead daydream of having
a public internet-login at the Infinite Sun space, 1732 Oak,
downtown.  That might be a good place to set up the cluster.
Especially if they succeed in putting a windmill on the roof
for the electricity.  Anyone feel like putting together
a general power supply that can switch 24VDC into everything
you need to make AT* motherboards happy?

Duane Attaway wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
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>>Should we have a contest for the oldest/cheesiest hardware with linux
>>currently installed?  Anyone got any working 386 stuff?  486-sx?  I
>>actually bit the bullet and pitched a bunch of ancient machines when I
>>moved, or I'd be in the running with a 386sx system I used to test
>>firewall software...
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> I have an old 386 laptop with a generous 4MB of ram.  There was one floppy
> distribution that worked great.  Took forever to boot, but I had a shell
> to play with.
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> Once I tried to boot a hard drive with redhat installed on it.  It
> complained about running out of memory trying to spawn the tty's and
> didn't do much after that.
> 
> Its a neat little laptop.  Easy on the batteries.  Perhaps if I make a
> really pruned down kernel, it would be useful.
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