On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:57:52AM +0200, John Longland wrote: > > Got and oldish (??) No question about it - you've said below that it's a Pentium 1 system which means it's probably 8-10 years old. > NEC machine from someone and I am loading > LINUX on it. > The machine is a NEC, Intel CPU Pentium 75-200 > > LINUX: RH6.1 Red Hat Linux 6.1 is ancient. It has known security holes and is missing many features found in modern releases. It was released in 1999, became generally unsupported by the end of 2000 although it did have 2 security fixes since then but the last one was still over 3 years ago. I really have to question why you want to install a release that old on that hardware. What are you hoping to accomplish? It's like installing Windows 98 on that system (6.1 and W98 are roughly the same age). I've given away a system newer than what you're trying to install on... -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
