On 10/4/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:46:01PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I have a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram. I bought an 8 GB drive to put in my > > > P-II and it won't boot it so I've put in in the 486 along with a 1 GB > > > drive. > >
<snip a very intertesting, educative and long discussion about using an old 486 with an ISA bus as a desktop machine> If you're trying to install OpenBSD on a 486 machine just to keep your proficience levels, why not just virtualize it on whatever is the OS that will boot the P-II? I have a vmware image running quite comfortably on my desktop at work.