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Linux VESA local bus compatablitly question?

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Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1992 - 1:40 pm

Hi all,

        I want to buy a 486 with the VESA standard local bus architecture.
This means that the 80x86 chip is on the motherboard, not on the local bus
cards. My question is, if I go this route with an S3 local bus video card
and an IDE - 32-bit local bus disk controller, will I be able to run Linux?
(That reads: without a year of hacking)

        Thanks,

        -Phil

P.s. I read the FAQ and it didn't mention anything about the VESA local bus
architecture or the S3 video accelerator chip.

P.p.s. Will I really need 150Megs of disk space to get X running?
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