[Ham-Computers] Linux question

[Ken Sprouse]

Mark Pilant wrote:

>Greetings.  My turn for a question :-)
>
>Do any of you know if it is possible to install RedHat 9 (Linux 2.4.20-6)
>on a motherboard it claims is unsupported?  In reality, it is fine just
>old.  It is an ASUS SP97-V motherboard with an AMD K6/300 CPU currently
>running RH 7.1 (Linux 2.4.2-?).
>
>To make this ham related, I'm looking to make this machine a time server
>by connecting it up to my GPS time/frequency standard.  The frequency
>standard I used with my test equipment to keep all my ham equipment running
>and aligned properly.
>
>73
>
>- Mark  N1VQW
>  
>
Greetings from Pittsburgh.  I am by no means a Linux guru but I have 
found that the latter versions of Linux (after say 6.0 or so) install on 
just about any Intel box.  You might have problems getting video or 
sound to work properly.  I just installed Red Hat 9 on my Dell laptop 
and it went without a hitch.  I also installed the command line version 
of same on an old Compaq DeskPro.  That is not going to work out because 
the hard drive is not large enough for what I intend the machine for but 
other than disk space it came right up.

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