Hello

[Sean]

hrm is that a packard-hell machine? Your novell card should be supported.
You might be able to get another nic from like good deals or maybe someone
on the list has one? (Do we still have the goody box Alan used to have?)


On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 jtuma@ia4u.net wrote:

> Gentlemen:
> 
>     Thank you very much for your advice on my internet server project.  To
> answer some of your questions:    I just got the 486 as salvage from my
> employer and I had only booted it up to make sure it worked (it did - had
> MS-DOS 6.0 installed).  A closer examination revealed the mb is VLB,
> meaning the PCI NIC I wanted to use is not an option.  It has some kind of
> Novell card in it, but I want to use the PCI NIC due to faster speed
> (10/100).  Also it has a combination video and I/O card with only one IDE
> port and I didn't want to put a CD-ROM on the same port as a HD.  So, I
> plan to get a PCI mb to use with the current processor (486dx2-66) and
> 8meg of ram.  I, obviously, won't be able to get this all done by your
> meeting on Sunday, but hope to be able to bring the machine to the
> February meeting.  I will further research the various alternatives, but
> right now I'm leaning toward freesco, as it will apparently fit on the
> 120meg HD in the 486.  Another option is putting in a 1 gig Quantum drive
> I have available, if more space is needed. Thanks again - any further
> suggestions will be appreciated.
> 
> Jim Tuma
> 
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