Old Cyrix 6x86

dorian-gray84 · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject: Old Cyrix 6x86

Hi guys!

I founded an old pc which has a cyrix 6x86 cpu.
I'd like to use it like an home server/router but I didn't understand if that pc is ok for me.

I want to set up it with dhcp, nat, samba, proxy, amule, print & mail server and maybe it should manage my home wireless network.

So I put livecd 2005.0 into it to begin installation and when I type:

!equilibrium · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject:

yes, cyrix cpu are supported since kernel 2.0
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Blood Fluke · Apprentice Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 224

dorian-gray84 · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject:

I discovered that my Cyrix is marked as PR-150, so it's like a Pentium 150MHz, right??

I believe that it is too low system although 256MB of Ram to manage my server, especially amule and print server.
What do you think about it?

PS: thank you guys!

updatelee · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 30

I have an old PR+133, I wouldnt say they're equal to a Pentium 133, more like a P120 or P100 depending on the app. They also run VERY hot and have many issues with that, mine runs best underclocked to a PR+120. at 133 it crashed once a day, at 120 it runs for months. maybe I just needed a bigger fan lol, but it works for me. I was using it with 128mb ram running OpenBSD, worked good as a server, Ive since updraged my house server to a celeron 300a, alot faster

blotto · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:10 am Post subject:

HI I love my Gentoo but I also still love my first Linux install-
Freesco
This is a firewall nat print server router and more and runs on a 486 with 8meg mem it also has a forum and community like Gentoo
Forum
and it runs off a floppy or a HD or if you search the forums there is a script for backup to CD.
All the extras like ssh samba and host of others are contributed by users and its package management is simple, based on slackware (zipslack)

dorian-gray84 · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:53 am Post subject:

I've seen your project and I think it's very cool and I useful but I prefer to use gentoo for my server; first of all because I want to learn how to set up a server (I never did it before) and second once because I understood freesco doesn't really support amule at all.

Although that, good project, I'll remember it for the future...

hooflungpoo · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 33

I think you should take a look at smoothwall.org and forget about running a samba server on that cpu... they were great in their day but alas they don't have supporting parts for good fileserving. You would need to have a PCI IDE card that supported large harddrives and at that price you might as well ebay a dell optiplex gx1 for cheap.