I had installed RH 7.3 on a similar but teeny bit faster machine - an Aptiva 500mhz, c. 256 Mb ram and found any graphical desktop to be painfully slow. Interestingly on my Dell Latitude laptop c. a PII 300 mHZ and 256 ram - RH 9.0 runs much faster and either KDE or GNOME is quite usable. David David I. Sommers, Ph.D. Scientific Review Administrator Interventions Review Committee (ITV) National Institute of Mental Health 6001 Executive Boulevard Room 6144, MSC 9608 Bethesda, MD 20892 Rockville, MD 20852 (for express or courier service) 301-443-7861 - voice 301-443-4720 - fax dsommers@xxxxxxxxxxxx - email -----Original Message----- From: Terry Parrish [mailto:t_parrish75@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 6:07 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Installing Linux I am trying to install Linux Red Hat 9 on a IBM APTIVA, which as a AMD-K6-2 processor, 333 MHz processor speed, and 64MB of memory. When I get to the point in the installation where Linux is formatting the partitions and the installation image is supposed to be transferred to the hard drive, I get the following error "You are trying to install on a machine which isn't suppoed by this release of Red Hat Linux". Is this really true based off of the information I just gave or could there but another issue? In another attempt to install Linux, I tried to install it on a Dell labtop, which has Pentium 3 processor, 500 MHz, and 128MB memory. This time I can not install Linux from a CD-ROM so I try to use the rawrite utility to create installation floopy disk but when I use this utility nothing is copied to my floopy disk. What is the problem? I can get Linux on one of my machines? Terry _________________________________________________________________ Grab our best dial-up Internet access offer: 6 months @$9.95/month. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
