First post, by aries-mu
Hello guys,
this is a tough one!
These are the systems:
• i3 with Windows 10 64 bit connected to the internet via WiFi (cannot do otherwise)
• 486 DX2 66
• Pentium 60
• Pentium 90
• Pentium 120
Each one of the 4 old computers should have a multi-boot on partitioned SD or CF card with the following OSs:
○ MS-DOS 6.22
○ Win 95C
○ Win 98SE
○ Win NT 4 Workstation
○ Unix or Linux of some sort (a version that is light enough for that old hardware) (or should I use for this the Pentium III 450 MHz I put aside?)
And I'd like to create a LAN between those systems, and for the old ones with each one of the operating systems.
Questions:
1) What computer should I use as central server? (Do I even need to set up a server? But I'd like to learn networking skills, so I guess I do)
2) Since my laptop's wifi is taken by the internet on wifi router, can I do all this using its Ethernet port?
3) Is this even possible?
4) The 486 has only ISA slots. What NIC card would you recommend in terms of great compatibility with those old OSs?
5) What about a PCI NIC for the other systems?
Thanks!!!!!
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