[plug] Re: trouble installing Redhat 9

[David Buddrige]

This is in reply to everyone who's replied so far.  Thanks for your 
assistance so far; The only reason that I have selected RH9, is that I 
happened to have a copy of Redhat 9 on hand;  I have tried Mandrake 9.0 
before on this computer but it was waaay too slow with the graphical 
environment.  I might have a copy of Debian woody lying around somewhere 
[just the first CD] which I might give a shot.  Basically I just want to get 
a web-proxy going as easily and painlessly as possible so that we can have 
everyone in the household surfing at the same time... 

Second priority is to get email downloading; but it is less of a priority 
than the web [I can use webmail at a pinch].  Whatever I use has to be on CD 
as I only have a 32x CD-Rom on this computer.  The other machine I have to 
try is a PII 200Mhz - also with 64MB RAM, so either way it needs to run on 
minimal hardware requirements. 

I think I'll give Debian another go at this point.... 

cheers 

David. 

 

 

Gavin Chester writes: 

> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 22:31 +0800, David Buddrige wrote:
>> Hi all,  
>> 
>> I've an old PII 333Mhz with 64MB RAM, which I am trying to set up as an 
>> internet proxy server.  I'm atttempting to install Redhat 9 on it.  I've 
>> managed to get through the install ok, and the dialog saying that the 
>> install was successful has been displayed, however when I reboot the 
>> machine, I get a series of what appear to be kernel messages saying things 
>> like: 
> 
> -snip-  
> 
> Like the other post in reply to your problem, I would steer you away
> from doing a fresh install of RH9 and recommend going with new software
> (if you were just trying to maintain an existing RH9 system, that would
> be a different issue). 
> 
> It's not so hard to get:
> Fedora Core 3 is available on the cover DVD of a few mags at your
> newsagent (Linux Format, Linux ... & Developer (having a Sunday morning
> blank on the name) and APC mags, are just a few).  The Jan issue of
> Linux Format had both FC3 and Ubuntu, so you have the option of trying
> something completely non-Redhat - and some have reported that Ubuntu
> runs well on older, low-end hardware.   
> 
> FWIW: I run FC3 on this here old PII450Mhz - mind you it has 1Gb of RAM
> so install issues don't seem to happen.  I upgraded from RH8 and it was
> a delight to have some newer hardware recognised by FC3 out of the box
> (eg, a new DVD burner, my CTX CRT monitor and a logitech trackpad that
> never worked in RH8)    
> 
> Regards, Gavin 
> 
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