[H-GEN] Call for suggestions

Michael Anthon mca at tams.com.au
Tue Oct 19 02:04:51 EDT 1999


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Henry Parker [mailto:jasonp at uq.net.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 1999 4:11 PM
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> Subject: [H-GEN] Call for suggestions
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> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a small 486 I've managed to successfully boot with dhcp and
> tftp, mounting a root filesystem over NFS.
> 
> The question now is finding something to *do* with it; do any
> humbuggers have any suggestions for hack-worthy things for this box to
> do?  Keep in mind it's a 486 with 12 megs of ram, running diskless.
> That said, there is about 140MB available to install an operating
> system on, as well as a monitor and PC keyboard.
> 
> (The first person to say `beowulf' gets hit in the head.  Hard.)
> 
> jason
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