Dave Plater composed on 2016-09-07 20:38 (UTC+0200):
I'm in Cape Town South Africa and after trying SLES11 sp2, all I need is a couple of 256M pc100 ram sticks.
I remember machines of that era commonly being very picky about which RAM sticks would work. Commonly, density in readily available (newer) sticks is too high, too few chips for the amount of RAM per stick, so either only half the stick is recognized, only one stick is recognized, or the machine won't even POST. Likely the sticks you need will have 16 chips, 8 on each side. My two oldest machines used for QA and such have: model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) cpu MHz : 996.776 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU 1133MHz cpu MHz : 1129.566 I have TW running on both. IIRC, I was never able to find a matched pair of PC100 256M the slower would accept, so it's stuck crawling along on 384M, having been upgraded many times since initially installing Factory on it long long ago, as has been the newer. Though the older hasn't been updated since 31 Dec., I updated the newer/faster on 23 Aug. to 4.6.4 or 4.7.1. Best of my recollection, booting the newer is not a problem. It has KDE3, but MGA (non-KMS) AGP video. Besides being a victim of https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856606 I don't remember much else about it other than it is fully populated with 512M RAM in two sticks. I don't expect to be able to boot it for the foreseeable future. My test stations are currently on hiatus, likely until such time as I've finished Hermine cleanup. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org