Keith Dart said in Re: New Strategy for Linux at 11/Mar/1998 13:25:26.
a good place to look for all that stuff may be
http://www.onsale.com/computers.htm
here is what i'd guess-
$35-55 486 motherboard (with 486)
$20-35 8 mb
$25 3.5"drive
$25-40 4X cd-rom drive
$25-40 SVGA Video card (1 or 2 mb)
> On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> > As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Linux
> > onto my Windows 95 computer. So... looking for other ideas, I put together
> > this wonderful strategy... using my old 286 case, I put my old 486SX/25
> into
> > a 486 motherboard. I buy 8MB ram, and a 3.5" drive as well as a 4X CD-ROM
> > drive. On my pentium, I copy the autoboot files on the CD to a Dos boot
> > disk, then I boot it up and install it that way on the 486. However, this
> > strategy is much more expensive than my previous attemps. Can anyone tell
> me
> > what the following will cost (total):
> > 486 motherboard
> > 8MB ram
> > 3.5" drive
> > 4X CD-Rom Drive
> > SVGA video card
>
> I don't know, but what problems are you having?
>
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