LCIII System Advice

[equant]

I don't have to change the motherboard to put in a 68040 do I? I thought I could just swap out the LC version with a full 68040.

 

[LCGuy]

If you already have an LC475 board, no, you just need the full '040 chip.

If you still have the stock LCIII board though, you will need to change the mobo - you cannot put a '040 of any type on the LCIII board.

 

[equant]

Right, I was getting confused, about what I was asking. Too many strands in the duder's head.

For the FPU socket on the LCIII motherboard, a 68881 _won't_ work right? It must be a 68882?

 

[luddite]

You know you could always install NetBSD on that thing... I ran it on a stock LCIII with 36 megs and it was fine in spite of me not having a clue what I was doing.

 

[equant]

I like that idea. With two LCIIIs there's no reason not to have one of them running NetBSD. I just need an ethernet card for it to make it useful.

Thanks for the idea luddite.

 

[dbraverman88]

If you want to install a unix like os on it I would agree with luddite. NetBSD is a good choice. Another good choice would be Debian Linux. There are other options, but those would probably be the easiest for you to install and administer.

--David

 

[Flash!]

If I was going to run 7.5 then i personally would go no further than 7.5.3, beyond that seems to be just bloat which slows the system for no apparent purpose. This is speaking from experience with a LCII

 

[LCGuy]

Not that you'd want to run any version of 7.5 on an LCII period - 7.5 and 7.6 are very nice on an LCIII, but in my experience, rather sluggish on an LCII with 10MB of RAM.

 

[Quadraman]

If I was going to run 7.5 then i personally would go no further than 7.5.3, beyond that seems to be just bloat which slows the system for no apparent purpose. This is speaking from experience with a LCII

The difference in power between an LC II and LC III is huge. It's not really a good comparison to make.