[CLUE-Tech] RH8 question

[Art Reisman]

Are you doing this as a learning type thing? If not
wouldn't it be easier to pick up an older pentium on
ebay or at a garage sale? I have an old one that I
just keep  as a spare that I could bring to the next
CLUE meeting if you are a starving artist in need...

Art
--- Ski Dawg <skidawg at plbb.net> wrote:
> I have what may seem to be a somewhat odd question.
> 
> I have an old 486DX2 66 (32MB RAM) computer that I
> am trying to make
> into a firewall system. I wanted to install RH8 on
> it, but officially
> RH8 doesn't support anything below a Pentium.
> 
> The reason that I am wanted to use 8 is because it
> is the latest and in
> theory, the update process shouldn't take very long.
> I tried to install
> RH7.3, but that didn't work (installer doesn't work
> on this system). If
> I install RH7.2 it will take me the next 2 days
> running up2date (and
> manually updating) just to get the system close to
> ready.
> 
> I have been able to get through the entire install
> process with RH8
> (before I found out about RH8's kernel problem with
> 486's), but at the
> end, it doesn't install any kernels. It also didn't
> setup any boot
> information since no kernel was installed. Is there
> a way that I can
> tell it to use a different kernel package/rpm that I
> supply (like one
> from 7.3 or something). I have been doing an http
> install on the 386
> machine from a webserver within my network if that
> makes any kind of
> difference.
> 
> I was able to boot the system with KNOPPIX, and get
> to everything that I
> previously installed under RH8, but the boot
> directory and the /usr/src
> directories are empty. I tried downloading a kernel
> from kernel.org and
> compiling that from scratch, but I couldn't get that
> to work correctly
> (too many problems to name here).
> 
> I would appreciate any advice that anyone can offer
> with with problem.
> 
> --
> Doug
> 
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