New to Linux - BIOS before 2000?

[Tim]

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 11:20 -0700, Mercury Rising wrote:
> it give me an error saying my BIOS was 1997 and I needed a a 2000 BIOS
> or better.  The machine has a Pentium 3 with 550 MHz CPU with over 700
> Megs memory but a small hard drive of just 10 Gigs

To be honest, I think the CPU slowness, perhaps the RAM, and drive size
are probably going to be a big problem, too.

I've got servers with similar specs, and they run fine.  But a for a
workstation generating a video display, low specced computers get a bit
painfully slow.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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