rvuori@cc.helsinki.fi (05/27/91)
Hi, I'm a complete novice to Minix, but would like to set up some kind of an nix system on some 286's a have hanging around, and think MINIX would be the perfect solution, but I am not shure whether the software I need really exists out there? The following computers would be used: Four 286's with 640 k RAM each, booting from floppy disks, but can be equipped with hard-disks, and a 8-bit Novell ethernet card each. One 286 with 2.6 M of RAM and two 20 Meg MFM harddisks, and maybe a bigger SCSI-drive will be added, currently running dedicated NetWare 2.15 with a 8-bit ethernet card. Is there a way of leaving NetWare on the server and access the files from minix on the other machines in the LAN? Will the system be reasonably fast if I put minix on each of the 5 286's and use one of them as the main file-server, is it even possible? I was thinking of running a BBS on the system. Rasmus Vuori RVUORI@cc.helsinki.fi P.S. Sorry if these questions are stupid, but my I haven't found anybody who would say neither NO, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE nor YES, DO IT LIKE THIS...