> Okay, so I've got this old server with EISA slots. I keep hearing that Linux > doesn't support EISA systems very well. Is this true, if so is there a > distro that has this figured out now? no, it's microchannel that linux doesn't have good support for. I've even heard that it's not so much the architecture itself; but that no one has written drivers for a lot of the devices that you're likely to find. > If not, what other options do I have to use for an OS? whatever it came with, generally. > It's a dual pentium system, 128 MB ram, 5 internal scsi drives (either 500MB > or 1GB each), as well as two external scsi drives, tape drive, cdrom. > There's no IDE drives in there currently. if you didn't pay too much money for it; consider stripping it for parts. I've got an IBM microchannel server, that I haven't quite figured out what to do with yet. it's a P90 with 96MB, and a 6GB SCSI RAID array (all 1GB SCA drives). paid $4 for it at gov't auction; but I don't have much use for it. the memory might be good for something, and the SCSI drive cage might be useful; but beyond that, it doesn't have enough processing power to make it much more than an endtable (a job it does rather well, actually). Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700