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woody@{spam.bites}.daemon.apana.org.au (Terry Wood) writes:

>Greetings People,

>I have put together a (shit) box out of lots of spare old equipment:

>486sx 25 (Osbourne M/board)
>80mb hd
>1.44 fdd
>mono card + monitor
>NE2000 comp card

If it was a 386sx16 then you could call it a shit box. That isn't too
lame assuming you have 4MB (or more of RAM).

>Now, this system boots up fine from floppy or HD into dos without
>a problem.

>I thought i might try and install linux on it for something to do so i
>put in the RedHat Linux 4.1 Boot disk and gets to the screen that asks
>me if i have a color screen and i select NO, then it continues on for
>a little while and stops with a blank screen and the cursor flashing.

Hit <Alt>-F1 to F3 or whatever, and see what messages are there (if
it will change consoles).

>Im a little lost why.  I know the NE2000 is aok (does the same without
>the ne2k in there aswell anyway) and ive used the monitor and mono
>card on my normal linux box without any problems. Even DOS works on
>this lowly machine.

I suspect it is not a linux issue, but rather something that the RH
install is assuming that it really shouldn't be. I've run linux on
386sx-16 boxes with mono cards, and it worked fine (albeit slowly).

Chances are if you beg/borrow/steal a VGA card to get thru the install,
you will be set after that. Linux should not have a problem with the
mono card once you get the stuff on the disk.

Paul.