<DIV>Hi, Vlok</DIV> <DIV>Thanks for the info, I'll have to look into this and see what I can do.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ron:)<BR><BR><B><I>vlok stone <vlokstone@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Ron, you have plenty of video. My thin clients only<BR>have 2mb and can pull a <BR>gui. My suggestion would be to use Ubuntu. It still<BR>uses the old debian installer. Ubuntu seems to support<BR>a lot of video and other older harware pretty well.<BR>But I would suggest that you try a light weight window<BR>manager. XFCE4 is a good middle ground between heavier<BR>gnome/kde and ultra<BR>light fluxbox/icewm. Somewhere between desktop manager<BR>and window manager. If your having problems getting a<BR>gui, it might be the monitor. I would look at LTSP's<BR>web site and look for the mode and refresh rates for<BR>old monitors. I think it's in the contib area. When<BR>installi
ng use a
17 inch monitor and it if you have<BR>problems then it isn't the monitor. In which case look<BR>and your /var/log/Xorg log and it should tell you<BR>where it's failing. X windows can be difficult even<BR>for old crusty unix admins. X is both a blessing and a<BR>curse. <BR><BR>--- Ron Maggio <RONMAGGIO2005@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR><BR>> Hi all.<BR>> I did not mean to start such a war over my request<BR>> asking if someone might have a copy of this distro.<BR>> I have been to UB's ftp site, and I see they have<BR>> dropped their archive of Red Hat, but they still<BR>> archive Mandrake with all (that I know of) their<BR>> patches and updates. Which seams very strange to me<BR>> that they kept the Mandrake archive but dumped Red<BR>> Hat's:( <BR>> <BR>> Now for the reason why I wanted Red Hat 7.2 I'm<BR>> not as knowledgeable as the rest of you, but if you<BR>> would look at the systems requirements in the readme<BR>> file or for that matter
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box you will notice<BR>> not only drive space and ram needed to run it,<BR>> you'll also will notice the Video cards supported as<BR>> well. Since most of my equipment is legacy (I'm not<BR>> rolling in money) I would like to install something<BR>> that would be compatible with my old junk equipment,<BR>> and able to run the first time I boot up!<BR>> <BR>> This is what I have have for an install at this<BR>> time.<BR>> IBM IntelliStation 6899-18U<BR>> Pentium Pro 200MHz dual processor<BR>> 256mb EDO ECC ram<BR>> Gainward/CardExpert PCI (this system has no AGP)<BR>> TXT2 M64 32mb Video Ram<BR>> I tried newer distro's that I thought where easy<BR>> to install, but I do not have a sufficient video<BR>> card to drive the GUI. I'm looking for something<BR>> rather easy to install, and would work with my<BR>> equipment. If you have any suggestions they would be<BR>> greatly appreciated.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks, Ron:)<BR>
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