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It is good to hear that you got it to work properly.

Sometimes it is possible to install the OS on a small partition in the beginning of the harddrive. Later when you have the OS up & running you can make a second partition covering the rest of the disk that you only access from within the OS. This way you avoid the problems associated with overlay pr...

I was looking thru some old documentation I have downloaded some time ago when I happened to to come across a paper titled "Mobile Pentium® Processor with MMX Technology on 0.25 Micron System Design Considerations". It describes what changes that are needed to adapt systems designed for Pentium MMX ...

I got my hands on a QDI MVP3-based board a few days ago and today I decided to test one of my Tillamook CPUs with it. This board could actually boot with the Tillamook CPU installed, but to get past the memory test & BIOS initialization a had to disable the L2 cache. Running the CPU at 400Mhz seems ...

You can desolder two pins from an old CPU LIF socket and use those pins for a socket for a clock crystal.

Actually at first my two 430TX motherboards had old BIOSes that did not recognize the Tillmook (the CPU was treated as an ordinary Pentium MMX CPU). The Tillmook seemed to work just fine despite that. I have also got the Tillmook to work on one 430HX based motherboard. For some reason this board aut...

Does anybody know if it is possible to get a Pentium 266 Tillamook to run on a Epox MVP3C2 or MVP3G2 board? I have tried booting with these CPUs, but I cannot seem to get it to work. The CPUs work just fine on i430TX boards, but the MVP3 doesn't seem to like them. Has anybody got any ideas of how I ...

As larrystotler said; Reliability, security and modest hardware requirements.

Personally I would choose OpenBSD because its' superior security. However OpenBSD does lack the relative user friendlyness that some GNU/Linux-distributions have and it isn't as optimized as Linux.

The only thing that I would change is the OS: Use OpenBSD or GNU/Linux instead.