Mickaël Bucas wrote: > Hi > > Le sam. 27 avr. 2024 à 18:53, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> Howdy, >> >> I'm installing Gentoo on another old box. > I was wondering how old this box could be and if it had a BIOS with > UEFI and GPT. > > I didn't find a precise date for BIOS, but Wikipedia[1] shows that the > first version of Windows for x64 that can read and write GPT was > published on 2005-04-25. To boot with UEFI, a later version was > published on 2006-07-22. > I think this means most BIOSes were compatible to various degrees at this > time. > > So if your box is less than 20 years old, it should be OK ! > I don't remember how powerful the boxes were at this time, but they > still had floppy disk drives :) > >> Thanks to anyone who has a link, some notes or something. :-D >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > Good luck > > Mickaël Bucas > > [1] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Windows:_64-bit_versions > > . >
Well, this thing is old enough it is only BIOS. It's a old Dell Inspiron 546. It has a AMD Phenom II X4 955 CPU in it. I upgraded it a bit. It is maxed out at 8GBs of memory. No floppy but I wouldn't be surprised to see a connector on the mobo for one tho. I mostly use these as rigs to do backups with but could serve as a rig to watch TV with if my main rig goes to puter heaven. This one is in a case at least. My usual NAS/backup box rig sits on a piece of plywood. Good ventilation during compiles tho. ROFL I just got to figure out how to make it so I can login as root via ssh again. I set PermitRootLogin to yes in ssh config but still refuses. I did it on my NAS box but can't recall what else I had to do. No monitor, power plug or anything for it right now. I moved it to the kitchen table so I could hook this old Dell to the router. Now to see what else I can get into. Dale :-) :-)
