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Article #10Re: For Sale, 610meg IDE w/linux preconfigured
From: jpergal
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00
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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:49:56 -0500, klaatu <klaatu@clark.net> wrote: >For Sale: > >610 Seagate IDE drive, Boca Board IDE driver card & cables, Slackware >Linux pre-installed, $250.00 > >This new Seagate 8272A (630meg unformatted) drive has perhaps 50 hours >on it since it came out of the bag. The Boca Board is the IDE Plus >model, which can support 2 IDE harddrives, 2 floppies, 2 serial and 2 >parallel interfaces. Comes with all cabling. As configured, it's set for >secondary IDE, no ports, and would make a perfect adapter for an add-on >Linux system. If you've got a standard motherboard with one slot and a >power-supply plug to spare, you can just drop it in as is, reset your >BIOS to recognize it and you're ready to go. Complete with original >manual. > >If you decide that you want it, just let me know what kind of computer >you have and I'll install the Linux. This will be a semi-complete Linux >system, with the A, AP, D, N, X, and XAP sets on it, ready for >networking with some tweaking. Also includes assorted GNU goodies such >as the 'ssh/sshd' package for secure networking, MESA graphics >libraries, the 'tycoon' point and click iconic tool-bar for application >invocation, and Openwin installed as the X-window manager. Includes a >special how-to file to get you up and on the network as soon as >possible. Comes with GNU compiler and all of the applications you've >come to expect from Slackware Linux, with the exception of the Tex >package and X-application Development packages. This is largely a clone >of the working internet domain host 'earthops.org' and also has working >NCSA 'httpd', and all of the standard Perl apps that come with that. > >Also, if anyone's trying to get a Harvest server up and running, a Linux >host is ideal for this purpose. Anyone needing a Harvest multi-site >search engine/indexing implimentation, let me know. > >Also, Slackware X configs and general tweaking available. > >-- You can buy a 2 Gig drve for $230, a 3 Gig for $295 a 650 Meg for $250 ain't much of a deal!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11663c,d530ba3222c0030d X-Google-Attributes: gid11663c,public X-Google-Thread: 107ef8,d530ba3222c0030d X-Google-Attributes: gid107ef8,public X-Google-Thread: 16814f,d530ba3222c0030d X-Google-Attributes: gid16814f,public From: jpergal@erols.com (jpergal) Subject: Re: For Sale, 610meg IDE w/linux preconfigured Date: 1997/02/12 Message-ID: <3301198a.12479783@news.erols.com> X-Deja-AN: 218147713 references: <3300F794.40C3840D@clark.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Erol's Internet Services mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: jpergal@erols.com newsgroups: dc.org.linux-users,clarknet.linux,dc.forsale