[linux-help] Re: Why RedHat 5.1 never installed, or Kickstart my scuzzy heart

["Koji Hayakawa" <sylf@xxxxxxxxx>]

My far-from-being-expert logic tells me that you really don't need latest or
even somewhat new hardware to run the newest release linux distro of any
kind.  It's just not recommended to slap on the default installation package
onto older machine, that's all.  KDE 1.x ran pretty slow on P75, but plain
WindowMaker ran really great on the same machine.  So what you need is to
install the latest RedHat, but not install all the latest, fancy programs
such as Gnome or KDE, K-Office, whatever.

All the traditional programs (be it Apache, Pine, or Gimp) run just as they
did 5 years ago, if not faster due to daily improvements to the code.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of D. Shane Robinson
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:32 PM
To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Why RedHat 5.1 never installed, or Kickstart
my scuzzy heart



 Yes, issues of my system not being up to spec for at least 7.x
(haven't checked 6.x yet). I've been chastised for running a 486, but
for the moment that is what I have. Hope to upgrade to Gigahertz
technology by the end of the year, but school and bills are more
important right now.
--- Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Is there a reason you're using RedHat 5.1, and not something that
> was
> released in the last 3 years?
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:33:45PM -0700, D. Shane Robinson wrote:
> >
> >  Playing around with installing RedHat (again || still, not
> sure).
> > Popped into another terminal during the attempted install and
> > discover that the install is defaulting to a Kickstart install
> with
> > SCSI devices. As there are no SCSI controllers on my system,
> install
> > blows up and refuses to even attempt to look for IDE drives. And
> all
> > that while I thought it was something wrong with the version of
> fdisk
> > installed on the distro CD!
> >  The boot disk that I am using is a SYSLINUX boot disk created
> from
> > files on my distribution. I will be boning up on Kickstart, but
> if
> > there are any gurus who would like to point me in the appropriate
> > direction, much thanks would be in their future. (Can't seem to
> find
> > the ks.cfg file.)
> >
> > Shane,
> > Linux newbie
> >
> > P.S. I was sitting at a DOS prompt the other night, watching
> files
> > getting copied from one drive to another, and caught myself
> reaching
> > towards Alt-F2 to go to another terminal...
> >
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