[nflug] RE: Red Hat 7.2

[vlok stone]

Ron, you have plenty of video. My thin clients only
have 2mb and can pull a 
gui. My suggestion would be to use Ubuntu. It still
uses the old debian installer. Ubuntu seems to support
a lot of video and other older harware pretty well.
But I would suggest that you try a light weight window
manager. XFCE4 is a good middle ground between heavier
gnome/kde and ultra
light fluxbox/icewm. Somewhere between desktop manager
and window manager. If your having problems getting a
gui, it might be the monitor. I would look at LTSP's
web site and look for the mode and refresh rates for
old monitors. I think it's in the contib area. When
installing use a 17 inch monitor and it if you have
problems then it isn't the monitor. In which case look
and your /var/log/Xorg log and it should tell you
where it's failing. X windows can be difficult even
for old crusty unix admins. X is both a blessing and a
curse. 

--- Ron Maggio <ronmaggio2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
>   I did not mean to start such a war over my request
> asking if someone might have a copy of this distro.
> I have been to UB's ftp site, and I see they have
> dropped their archive of Red Hat, but they still
> archive Mandrake with all (that I know of) their
> patches and updates. Which seams very strange to me
> that they kept the Mandrake archive but dumped Red
> Hat's:( 
>    
>   Now for the reason why I wanted Red Hat 7.2 I'm
> not as knowledgeable as the rest of you, but if you
> would look at the systems requirements in the readme
> file or for that matter on the box you will notice
> not only drive space and ram needed to run it,
> you'll also will notice the Video cards supported as
> well. Since most of my equipment is legacy (I'm not
> rolling in money) I would like to install something
> that would be compatible with my old junk equipment,
> and able to run the first time I boot up!
>    
>   This is what I have have for an install at this
> time.
>   IBM IntelliStation 6899-18U
>   Pentium Pro 200MHz dual processor
>   256mb EDO ECC ram
>   Gainward/CardExpert PCI (this system has no AGP)
>   TXT2 M64 32mb Video Ram
>   I tried newer distro's that I thought where easy
> to install, but I do not have a sufficient video
> card to drive the GUI. I'm looking for something
> rather easy to install, and would work with my
> equipment. If you have any suggestions they would be
> greatly appreciated.
>    
>   Thanks, Ron:)
>    
> 
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