In article <BtE228.D6J@kingston.ac.uk>, cc_s525@kingston.ac.uk (Francis Bell) writes:
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>Hi Linuxers,
>       The FAQ says that Linux won't run on EISA machines. Can anyone
>explain why, and suggest how difficult it would be to remedy ?

The FAQ lies...  (all due respect to FAQ maintainers :-)

It's not that Linux will not RUN on an EISA machine, it's just that at
current there is no real advantage to having EISA over ISA in regards
to Linux.  I believe at least one person is working on an EISA
specific thing now though (a SCSI driver).

You should just get ahold of the root/boot disk combination, and try
booting up.  If you can, and you can start fooling around, you're
compatible (enough).

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