CD ROM vs. CDRW on RH5.2
From: Allan Adler (ara_at_nestle.csail.mit.edu)
Date: 04/25/04
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Date: 24 Apr 2004 22:27:24 -0400
One of my computers has RedHat 5.2 Linux installed on it. I've been
advised that it is not possible to upgrade it, even by steps, to a
recent version of RedHat, nor even past RedHat 6, without trashing
everything on the disk. Also, the HD isn't very big, only a few GB,
and it is partitioned into Linux and DOS. I don't know one way or the
other, but meanwhile I'm trying to live with it. (Anyway, I don't
have all the intermediate distributions. I just have 7.2 and will soon
have 8.1. The RH5.2 was already on the HD when I received it.)
My big problem at the moment is that I don't have a good way to back up
this computer. If all else fails, I'll get another PC with a CDRW and
RH8 or 9, add the HD from the RH5.2 machine as a second drive to the new
one, and use the CDRW on the new system to back up the RH5.2 system.
After that, I can consider getting rid of it or finding another use
for it.
When I hit the delete key on the RH5.2 machine during bootup and look
at the boot options, I see that some of them allow the machine to boot
from a CD ROM. I don't know if RH5.2 itself had drivers for the CD ROM
or, further, for a CDRW. Also, based on what I saw under setup, I believe
that the BIOS can cope with a CR ROM, but I know so little about these
things that I don't know if that means that it can also cope with a
CDRW.
If I could install and use a CDRW under RH5.2, I could leave the HD where
it is and just back up the system as is.
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler
ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu
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