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

["Koji Hayakawa" <sylf@xxxxxxxxx>]

And it would be like applying security patch and what-not patch in one go.

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Behalf Of D. Shane Robinson
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:45 PM
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Subject: [linux-help] Re: Why RedHat 5.1 never installed, or Kickstart
my scuzzy heart



I'm certain that the kernel and standard programs would probably run,
but there would be an aggravation factor if I weren't able to run all
of the new stuff too. I suppose it is always an option though...
--- Koji Hayakawa <sylf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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