[TriLUG] Redhat 9 on Cyrix?

Rick DeNatale rick at denhaven2.homeip.net
Fri Mar 19 13:43:33 EST 2004


On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:01, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> This is odd... I'm wondering if you have some problem with your CD-ROM
> drive.  I recommend trying a network install from the Internet using the
> boot.iso method that Jason suggested.  (boot.iso is only a few megabytes
> so hopefully your CD-ROM will be able to read that okay.)

I've already tried a local network install, the cd rom drive wasn't
involved at all. I downloaded the iso images, mounted them via loop back
on this machine and tried an NFS install which still failed complaining
about the install discs.

I'm trying to do an ftp install right now from the ibiblio server, but
it's painfully slow. Is there a better local server to use?  I'm not an
official trilug member since I haven't been able to attend a meeting
yet. 
> 
> Also, any particular reason you are running Red Hat 9?  That's kinda old
> and will be end-of-lifed at the end of this month.  If you want to stay
> with the Red Hat line, you really should use Fedora Core 1 or one of the
> RHEL 3 knock-offs (CentOS for example).

Why RH 9. Because that's what I've been running and I wanted to keep
things in sync. I might look into Fedora Core, although some other folks
(Ximian e.g.) don't seem to be supporting it since it's not a
'commercial' distro.

On the other hand as for being up to date, there still seem to be a lot
of folks still running RH 7.




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