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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peace to you too!

I am not entirely sure I understand everything you are asking here.
I am adding the ToriOS list to this conversation as there are some with
more experience on the server side.

As far as I can tell, you basically want to make a very old computer
work well.  I do not know what Linux distros are incompatible with the
hardware you indicate.  I do believe Puppy Linux Wary is going to be the
easiest route to take.  I am not even entirely sure if rebuilding the
kernel with non-cmov support will work, nor do I know entirely how to do
this yet.

I do know that Wary Puppy has the 2.6 version kernel and a lot of older
hardware is well supported.  There may be some other distros (I think
Oracle Enterprise Linux still uses 2.6 in version 7) that would work for
your older PC.

Could you describe more about what you are trying to accomplish here? 
It sounds as though you are trying to mask an old computer as a server,
and hide this old PC away.  I am not sure why you are trying to prevent
someone from taking over the computer either, so if you could explain
more about what your intent is this will make things more clear.



On 04/24/2015 11:27 PM, orynider@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Shabbat Shalom,
>  
> Yes I have installed Lubuntu 10.04 but the installation was blocked
> somewere at 57% after hours. The ideea to put that PC back to work was
> from the local problem I have here were some try to put out of use any
> older PC that they cant takeover. On this PC from were I write I did
> disabled the secondary video controler on the ATI RADEON videocard,
> and I use only 5x166Mhz clock on Barton 2500+ wile I also work on a
> server rack that wil hide the PC in near future with any mainboard I
> may use.
>  
> On a Intel Celeron 2400 PC when they takeover a PC the mouse cursore
> can be seen probably on their display and the keyboard becomes locked
> and after they release the cursor is back and I test the keyboard by
> pressing "Num Lock". I did played with that PC in more regions of the
> building.
>  
> On this AMD system when they takeover the PC I can still use the mouse
> and type in but the text apears after a small delay, since is only
> SSE, wile they query the text, so the solution is a rack server and a
> mainboard with AMD64 and microwaves protection. At this moment I have
> a half build rack and just some can scan for this PC and if someone
> try this from a car before the building he may not even see that in
> the rack is a PC only that is someting more hot how the rack works atm.
>  
> On other conditions I would like to help out even with compiling a
> kernel. And even with this problems I can still test a kernel or any
> Linux that wok on the Compaq-Desktop 2000 200Mhz and 128MB and Samsung
> 20 GB HDD, and I'm also interested to see what Linux editions are
> incompatible with the hardware they use to takeover any PC.
>  
> Thak you for your responses!
>  
> Ory. 
>
> *From:* Israel <mailto:israel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 25, 2015 12:13 AM
> *To:* orynider@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:orynider@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Subject:* Re: ToriOS Kernel
>
> Hi,
> I have done more research on this prospect and the only real way I can
> see this working well, is if the kernel was recompiled and non-cmov
> support was added in.
>
> I have never looked into compiling my own kernel, but I may just do this.
>
> ToriOS requires at least 2 Gig HD.
> I saw that you had Memory  121MB 82MB used
>
> ToriOS should run fine. Especially if you have a large enough
> harddrive to use Swap.
> Of course you can also disable NetworkManager, and a few other things
> to slim it down to around 60MB of RAM used, though I have run it fine
> on 128MB ram.
>
> If your computer has only 120MB of hard drive then something like
> PuppyLinux (Wary especially) will be your best option overall (very
> small install)  You may need to tell Puppy not to boot into RAM, though.
>
> If you need any more information, or would like to work with me to
> attempt to support non-cmov processors I would be willing to look into
> it if you are very interested and willing to help (I do not have that
> type of processor).


-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team