On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, randy wrote:

> * Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au> [2003-06-22 00:19]:
> > Meanwhile, there's also another option: put the hard disk in another
> > machine, install there, and then move it back.
>
> if everything else fails then that's what i'll have to do, but the
> only other i386 i have here is another 486 with 8 MB (but the keyboard
> controller still works), but that's my firewall and if i take that
> down then 3 of my neighbours are offline ;)  all my other computers
> are macs, one of them running netbsd but only 1.5.1
>
I wonder why you insist on using this computer. No word against 486s but
they're so cheap that getting another fully functional motherboard is
probably the best option. Spare old 486 boards are about 120CZK here,
thats about 4,5$ and when you're lucky you can get a bunch of them for
free.

> but thanks anyway, one way or another i'll get this old little thing
> to run netbsd and do something useful!
>
Good luck!

Vitek "Dragon" Herman
dragon@penguin.cz
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