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Funny, my first computer was an IBM PS/1 that I got for Christmas of 1992. I couldn't figure out how to install linux on it. Googling now I see someone talking
by orbere 5y ago
Funny, my first computer was an IBM PS/1 that I got for Christmas of 1992. I couldn't figure out how to install linux on it. Googling now I see someone talking about the hard disk controller being on the mobo and unsupported, and someone saying they had to supply hard disk geometry info. That was beyond me as a pre-teen. Didn't get my first box to install slackware on until I traded two BB guns for a tower PC as a teenager.
- tristor 5y agoTo be fair, I don't think the IBM PS/1 ever had Linux installed on it. It ran Windows 3.1 and later Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, and we had Trumpet Winsock on it to get Internet connectivity through the local library at some point (originally my parents used Prodigy only, I introduced them to the Internet). The 386 system I put Slackware on was a Tandy of some type (I don't remember the exact model) which had a 20MB hard drive in place of where it typically would have a second 3.5" floppy drive. IIRC, I was never able to get sound working on it, but had no problem getting everything else generally working. A handful of years later my parents bought a Dell running Windows 98 SE and I built my first custom computer which had an AMD K6-2 and also ran Windows so I could play computer games (which at the time were more interesting to me) and it also had the just released Diamond Monster3D based on the Voodoo2 chipset w/ separate 2D accelerator card via VGA passthru. That was my first foray into proper 3D gaming and got me interested in hardware and overclocking, which dominated most of my interest until my later teen years when I started contributing to open source and got back into Linux.