Redhat 9 on older system - failure on initial install

[Drachenfell]

Was throwing RedHat 9 on an ancient system I had lying around, just as something to tinker with, but can't seem to succesfully do the install - for what it's worth, it's the source-less version that came with the old Red Hat Linux for Dummies book (ca. 2003).

System boots to the CD fine, get the loader and initial setup; can start either the GUI mode or the text mode; go through the partitioning and setup screens; leave it in the default workstation package installation and hit the metaphorical 'commit' button. Things start moving, but after five or ten percent on the progress bar, the installer just pops up a "You are trying to install on a machine which is not supported by this version of RedHat" message and shuts down.

Thesystem I'm trying to put it on is an old IBM desktop; AMD K6/233 CPU, 4gB HD, 64 mB RAM, used to have Win95 on it. Per the release notes in the installer, it's almost at the bare minimum end of the system reqs, but the text-mode installer *should* work.

Is there something I might be missing, or is the system just too much of a boat anchor for that version of Redhat?

[crow2icedearth]

i would suggest installing the latest fedora which i currently don't know because i don't use red hat . just do a install that is very basic and not hungry on resources if you do put x windows on it install a light weight manager like flux box.


AMD K6/233 CPU, 4gB HD, 64 mB RAM

with that hardware i would sugesst installing slackware distro or a lighter based distro. i have freeBSD *NIX running on an old pent 2 450 mhz box with 196 megs of ram and a 12 gig drive just fine. i use it as my local develop test webserver.

you can get better performance using a distro like i said . good lock
I would sugest using console mode for a while. on my freeBSD box i dont use GUI no reason to on that machine. on my better machine i do run x windows .
it really depends on how you plan on using the machine. if you want it as a test server machine then don't install X or heavy resourced appz.

good luck

[mrrangerman43]

I second the motion, with specs like that Slackware would be a good choice. I have Slackware 10.1 installed on a laptop PI 266 6.6gb hd and 384mb ram. I'm using Fluxbox for the WM, it's not fast, but it works.