I might be ready to give up...

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 06 January 2007 23:25, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 11:40 -0500, Hal Levy wrote:
> > Sorry- I am trying again     I have not used any flavour of linux in
> > more years than I care to even think about.  I decided to give it a go
> > with Fedora Core 6.   I installed on a older Pentium 2 MMX box. The
> > install went smoothly and I was up an running in a short time.
> > Shortly after install I was notified about 140 some-odd updates that
> > were availible and told the system to install them.
>
> I am not as optomistic as the other posters. You did not tell us how
> much RAM you have nor the speed of your processor but my experience with
> a P3 500 MHz processor and 384 Meg of ram has not been stellar.
>
> My experience is that FC6 is uniquely unsuited for older processors with
> older cards. I have not been able to trace down exactly why this is true
> but in my case , at least, it is true. So your problems in getting your
> system up and running does. not surprise me.
>
> My advice is to use an earlier version of Fedora is you want to stick
> with this computer.

I agree with Aaron here. I have FC1,2,3. and 5 running on an old Gateway 500. 
P3 Katmai processor, with 256MB RAM. All these distros work ok on this 
machine, but reducing the RAM to 128MB is pushing it a bit.

I know that FC2 is no longer supported, but have had no problems installing 
it. It may be worth giving it a try. All updates are available, including 
those from Fedora Legacy, up until the time that Fedora Legacy has reached 
it's own end of life.

I've always been happy with FC2, and even though it's no longer supported, 
continue to use it every day on one of my 2 machines.

This is the URL to be added to /etc/apt/sources.list for the Fedora Legacy 
repo.
rpm http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt fedora/2/i386 os updates legacy-utils

You can get FC2 from http://iso.linuxquestions.org

The Fedora Core stuff is at.

http://iso.linuxquestions.org/distro.php?distro=2

All the best.

Nigel.



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