[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“One of my dirty little secrets is that I have never
successfully installed Linux on anything. I’ve tried many times
over the years, because I bought into the idea that it could
revitalize old computers. I’d cobble together a 486 processor, some
no-name disk controller, a clonky old hard disk, a VGA card from
the Boer War, and off we’d go. My Linux experience terminated
shortly thereafter with an incomprehensible error message
concerning IRQ 9, lost interrupts or goblins in the bidirectional
bus buffers.“Fair enough. I didn’t get where I am today by not courting
gratuitous hardware problems through trying to do things on the
cheap…”