All of those machines will run some sort of linux, maybe a scaled down version but sothing. I'd get a KVM to share the boxes bwtween on Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor. Several are avaliable wiht cables for around $50US. There is a website has has directions for making old.old.old boxes into linksys like hoem routers too. Try http://www.ipcop.org/ I have seen this installed and running very securely in around 60 mintues.
>OK. Like I'm guessing is the case with many of the users on this list, >I have a multitude of PCs around the house. Four to be exact. I used >to have three of them up and running, but that was before we moved. >Now, since I have a DSL connection, I no longer have my desktop >connected to an old machine with ISA slots just to use the hardware >modem. We also have not yet found room to set up my daughter's >computer. So only one PC is in use and the others are not even out of >their moving boxes. > >Like I said, I don't have enough space in the new apartment to set up >multiple computers, but I dislike having computing power going to waste. > Can anyone suggest a way to network/connect all four to possibly >distribute the load among them? I am considering building a custom case >to hold all the MBs and only have a single monitor, mouse and keyboard >connected. The case would, obviously, have to be fairly large, but it >could then act as a table, as well, so the space would still be more >efficient than four seperate cases which serve no othere purpose. > >This is the equipment that I have: > >My current Desktop unit - AMD Athlon XP 2400+ > - 40 GB HD (less than half used) > - DVD ROM / CDRW > - 3.5" FD > - Built in Audio > - USB / Firewire > >Previous Net gateway - PII 350MH > - 200 MB HD > - 20 GB HD > - CD-ROM > - 3.5" FD > - USB > >Daughter's PC - 486 SX 25 > - 80 MB HD > >Other inherited PC - 486 SX 25 > - 120 MB HD? (may actually be 80 + compression) > >The 486s are currently running Win3.1, but that can be remedied. > >I also have lots of cables of various sorts, extra mice and keyboards >(that I hope NOT to use) a few small HDs (170 MB to 256 MB) a 10-BaseT >card or two. Somewhere, there is also a 2GB HD that has a possibly >non-funtional Win98SE install. It is probably in the PII box. > >-- >Marc Shapiro >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > RbtBotL Craig - ><> o BU SysAdmin /|\ 607 777 6827 ^ Tot Ziens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
