I quick point..
You can add a Bay Networks NetGear FA310TX 100/10 ethernet card
for about $30.
They work GREAT.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg [mailto:damin@cleveland.lug.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 1998 6:53 AM
> To: linux-mips@fnet.fr
> Subject: Re: RedHat 5.2 on Cobalt Qube/RAQ
>
>
> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Thomas Riemer wrote:
>
> > Clearly these people have never worked on a 486/66 :)
>
> On the contrary. My first installation of Linux was SLS on a 386 w/ 4 megs
> of memory. :) Then Slackware.. and X took me about 2 weeks to build on
> that thing! :)
>
> In any case.. yes.. NFS can do the trick, but the Qube is slow enough on
> compiles that adding the overhead of 10 mbit NFS mount to things like
> building X or EGCS doesn't cut it. I'd much rather move things less
> critical like /home and /var/spool off to NFS and save the local disk
> space for the development cycle..
>
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