-> WC>->  BUT you are not me. The point is you cannot just pull
any component
-> WC>->  out of yuor Junk box and have it Work UNLESS they are all from
-> WC>->  Disassembled LINUX machines. There are still a number of Hardware
-> WC>->  glittches with LINUX.

-> WC>Packard Bell 486 and H.P. Pavilion here.
-> WC>No glitches.

-> I have never owned a Packard Bell, MUCH smarter then that. And by the
-> way In the late 40's I worked in a Radio Repair Shop and Packard Bells
-> were CRAP them.

Well the crap still operates just fine these 11 years later.
I bridged two pins on the cheezy daughterboard modem 
regaining COM 1 replacing it with first an internal than external 
hardware modem.
I added a Creative CD-ROM sound card combo which also still 
works fine.
I upgraded the RAM but could use 2 32 Meg parity 72 pin FPM
units to top it off.
I added an aftermarket I/O card for large hard drives.

With just 20 Meg of RAM I could view a JPG slideshow, telnet QWK
downloads, browse the internet, download newsgroups and simultaniously
also play Midi, WAVE files and play audio CDs all
at the same time.

-> I did have a HP pavilion but never tried LINUX on it.

It likely won't like your sound card or modem but I replaced them.

-> But I do have two Vectra VL's(One desktop and one Tower) that I could
-> try,  SOMEDAY.                                                 

I've been looking over Ebay for them but they don't show up often
aand when they do they're OLD.

-> Althouhg I may try the 3 CD set of Mandrake 10.0 that I have.
-> BUT realisticly it is WAY down on my Priority List!!  :-)

I snag a new drive first of next month and Knoppix is going back onto
this machine.
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