Questions about old hardware

[Alan Dayley]

I have no answers about the CPU for the Dell.

I am running Smoothwall on a 486DX 100MHz machine.  If the Compaq is a DX 
(ie, has the math co-processor) you shouldn't have any trouble.  If it is 
an SX, the standard binary distribution of Smoothwal or IPCop will not 
install on it.

My Smoothwall box runs great as firewall to my DSL, PPPoE connection.

Alan

At 07:18 PM 7/21/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I recently was able to obtain two old computers and was wondering about a
>few things.
>
>First is an old Dell Optiplex 560/L. It was stripped down before I got it,
>and that's created a bind for me as it's a socket 4 system. It seems there
>were all for five or six CPU's made that fit in a socket 4, and it doesn't
>look like they're easy to find even on EBay. Does anyone know of a source
>for a Pentium 1 60 or 66Mhz or one of the other handful of socket 4
>processors? Worth trying to get this running? Or would anyone be interested
>in making a hardware trade? Fair warning, this box has no cpu, no memory,
>not even a floppy drive. It does however have a motherboard, a power
>supply, and a case -- I haven't tried plugging it in yet so I don't know if
>the power supply works.
>
>The other box is a Compaq Prolinea 4/33. I was quite lucky and it's mostly
>unstripped, just needs a hard drive and a network card (It even still had
>memory in it). As soon as I get some free space on my desk I plan on
>booting it up with a memcheck86 disk and letting that run overnight as a
>simple stability test. What I'm wondering is if anyone here is running IP
>Cop or Smoothwall on a 486, as that is what I'd like to do with this box.
>
>
>Steven,
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