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On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> This is off topic - someone just gave me an AS/400 eServer (about 4 years old
No, talking about using old hardware for something, preferrably with Linux
or another Freenix is not off topic, IMHO.
> and apparently obsolete). Besides trying to figure out where I'll put it
"4 years old and apparently obsolete" - did you really need to say
apparently obsolete? isn't it redundant...? of course it's obsolete, if it
wasn't.. what fun would it be? :D
> (it's huge) I need to figure out how to use it and/or what it might be useful
> for. At the very least, the components seem to be SCSI (3 disks (raid?),
> tape, cdrom) so I might be able to strip them out of the unit for use
If you can't find a use for them, or they're too small for your tastes or
what not, I have an old server box @ my nonprofit that I was _thinking_
of trying to get working, and I have space for more SCSI drives/devices.
> elsewhere. But before I do that, does anyone know what the whole unit might
> be good for? I hear that IBM has linux running on the AS/400 in virtual
> partitions. Anything besides that?
Maybe NetBSD?
One long URL:
http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&cof=L%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.netbsd.org
%2Fimages%2FNetBSD-smaller.jpg%3BLH%3A241%3BLW%3A247%3BAH%3Acenter%3B&
domains=netbsd.org&q=%22as%2F400%22&btnG=Google+Search&sitesearch=netbsd.org
http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&cof=L%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.netbsd.org%2Fimages%2FNetBSD-smaller.jpg%3BLH%3A241%3BLW%3A247%3BAH%3Acenter%3B&domains=netbsd.org&q=%22as%2F400%22&btnG=Google+Search&sitesearch=netbsd.org
www.netbsd.org
Linux "AS/400" search on google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+%22as%2F400%22
first hit: linux on as/400 page:
http://users.snip.net/~gbooker/as400.htm
Hey, you could always fiddle around and learn it's actual native OS.
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