* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [07-20-13 21:03]:
On Saturday, 2013-07-20 at 11:59 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Yes, ages/aged for a kernel but the box is from ~2005 and only used as a mail/web server. And I am afraid of bricking the box updating the kernel any more. Currently on openSUSE 11.2/Evergreen with a later kernel (pre Evergreen) than offered/supported.
You might be surprised. I have a pentium 1 machine with 32 MB of ram and XX gigabyte sized disks (I forget how many). It has SuSE 7.3. The limit is the RAM.
When I bought that machine it came with an 80 MB disk. The BIOS does not "support" the disks it has now, but... who cares about the BIOS? Not Linux, certainly :-p
So, do try that machine with a modern live version, it might work.
I have already ordered the 2 TB and now must be satisfied :^). But space is inexpensive atm and one never realizes what use a machine may be put to in the future. The 2 TB is nearly 3 times the size of the failing drive which has been satisfactory size wise for ~5 years and undoubtedly contains much data which may be removed w/o causing distress. I am somewhat of a pack-rat and need to put things into a more realistic light. Should have seen me when I trashed hundreds of 3.5 in floppy disks. tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org