[CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

Benjamin Smith lists at benjamindsmith.com
Fri Jan 21 22:35:09 UTC 2011


I would suggest "Damn Small Linux". It seems taylor made for stuff like this. 



On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:28:26 am Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote:
> > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > ...
> > model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
> > cpu MHz         : 451.031
> > ...
> 
> Being that it's Friday....
> (note that this output isn't snipped; kernel 2.0.36 doesn't grab the CPU
> frequency apparently!): [root at localhost /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> cpu             : 586
> model           : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> stepping        : M
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid           : yes
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 syscr pge mmx 3dnow
> bogomips        : 999.42
> [root at localhost /root]#
> 
> I happen to know it's a K6-2 500.
> 
> I have a few K6-2 300 systems here that would be ideal for a few uses if I
> could get something a little more modern than the i586 C4 build running on
> them... for that matter, perhaps I need the i586 C4 build on them.... They
> are Agilent ATMProbes that had a custom dual OC12 card complex, with the
> K6-2 board, which is not PC form-factor compliant, acting as a controller
> for the specialized atm cell capture/analysis complex.
> 
> For that matter, I'm looking for a distribution I can put on DiskOnChip and
> run on some embedded PC104 5x86/133 systems I have..... :-)
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