Network on NEC machine

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Wed Feb 9 12:48:19 UTC 2005


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 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...

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