> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ed Wilts > Sent: 09 February 2005 02:48 > To: johnl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: Network on NEC machine > > > 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 You are absolutely right ! We have an (old !!! ) 6.1 system here at work that has been running some of our software for ages. And we are looking at upgrading that. We can however not have down-time on this system and as part of this process, I need to create a "duplucate" system. So I used a spare system here. In the past I got 6.1 going on a 486(!!) without even thinking about it, so maybe I should just use other hardware for this exercise. NO ??? John > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
