[rescue] OpenBSD on Intel (actually)

Jeffrey Nonken jeff_work at nonken.net
Sat Apr 26 16:00:46 CDT 2003


On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 16:01:00 -0400, "Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at cmhcsys.com>
wrote:

> Jeffrey Nonken says ...
>
> > Maybe you should just give in and buy another motherboard from eBay. :)
Or
> > find a local shop that takes trade-ins and see if they'll sell or give
you
> > an old piece of junk. (Our local PC Warehouse sells older used boxes, and
> > sometimes it's tempting, especially since I've started
> > resurrecting old PCs with Linux and NetBSD. :)
>
> "Say, farmer?"
> "Yes, stranger?"
> "Can I take this road to Little Rock?"
> "No need to do that, son, they have plenty of roads there already."
>
> I don't need to buy any old junk.  I have tons of it.  I was using this
> machine because it was already assembled, was known to work, and wasn't
> being used for anything else.
>
> Since the need for it as a router has gone away, getting OpenBSD running on
> it has become just an intellectual challenge.  I'd like to make it work,
> but, if it's not solvable, it's no big deal.

Heh. OK, I thought you were trying to use limited available hardware to
solve a problem.

Slog on!


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