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Linux install tweaks for MCA
Content by Christian Hansen (original HERE). Modified by Major Tom.
Your situation: The Linux distribution at hand, do not support the hardware of your MCA
based machine.
In most cases, when Red Hat, and other distributions of Linux, say that they do not support
MCA based machines, they are in fact referring to the core part of the operating system
dealing with hardware, aka the kernel. When it comes to the application part, such as
the Apache webserver etcetera, that is: All the funcionality Linux software provides around
hardware and kernel - it will most probably work, if you can smuggle in a MCA supporting kernel
between your hardware and the rest of the distro. Before you throw yourself into this, check the links below. Maybe someone made a ready to go install diskette for your distro. The enterprise of smuggling a MCA kernel in between your hardware and distro, can be broken down into four elements: There is an easy approach to fix the installation diskette, if your distro has a DOS filesystem and a separate bootloader. 2 Figuring out your needs, and choosing a kernel At least the kernel should support your floppy and diskcontrollers, to get anything off the ground. The easy way of kernelreplacement using regular Windows - Dos copy functionality. 3 Modification of installation diskette. Still working on it Getting out of the catch 22, and doing the replacement form a running Linux system. 4 Postinstall modification of system boot Putting the kernel on your harddrive, and telling Linux how to boot. When you have come this far, you should have your distro installed. This is not the same thing, as having everything set up as you would want it. You might for instance have a bloated kernel with a lot of stuff you really don't need, and lacking something you need. But it is as far as this page goes. Have fun. Links to other sites with Linux MCA specifics
Ready made install floppies for Red Hat 6.0. I made those
myself :-) Last update 11. feb 2001 |
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