Re: file system inconsistency

On 10 Sep 2006 04:00:56 -0400, Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

(e) Therefore, it is only within the last few weeks that all of the
major hardware problems I have had with this laptop have been
solved to the point where I can contemplate upgrading the operating
system to a more recent version of Linux. And I am indeed
contemplating doing so. At the moment, I have the RedHat Fedora 2
installation CD's. I'm not sure if the hardware on this laptop
will support such an upgrade. It only has 64 MB RAM, for example,
and only about 4 GB of hard disk space. I found out that 64 MB RAM
is not even enough to boot the hikarunix 0.4 CD. If I destroy the
operating system presently installed on the laptop in the process,
and such an outcome is not at all unlikely given my experiences
trying to upgrade on other machine, some of which have been duly
reported on this newsgroup, I need to have a plan for what I am
going to install on this laptop in case that occurs. One possibility
is to install the UMBC RedHat 7.3 distribution that I downloaded
using a friend's laptop that is equipped with wifi and which I used
to install that version of Linux on the ancient 16 MB PC mentioned
earlier. Another is to try to install the UMBC RH 8 distribution
which I downloaded the same way. The wifi laptop isn't available
to me at the moment, but when it is I intend also to get the UMBC
versions of RH9, Fedora 1 and Fedora 3. So, the maintenance of this
laptop goes forward but there is a lot to think about.
(f) Another reason I like to keep RedHat 7.1 and other old versions of
Linux around is that some of the books I am trying to learn from
are based on these old Linux kernels. For example, I've been trying
to learn some of what is in the book, Linux Device Drivers, 2d ed.
Maybe much of what is in the book is obsolete, but I'll be glad to
get to the point, after reading it, where I can appreciate how
obsolete it is. I can't afford to keep throwing money at the moving
target that is Linux by constantly buying books that I can't read
fast enough to keep up with the changes that will make the books
obsolete before I'm even a few chapters into them. I have no problem
with the trailing edge of technology and, that being the case, I'm
content for the moment to study the books I have that are suited to
to the machines and operating systems I have. There is nothing wrong
with that. Everyone has his own way of learning and his own limit
on the resources he can commit to the learning process. This is mine.

This isn't an answer to your original question either, but might come
in handy: As you have noticed, when you mention using an old RH
release, some people will predictably jeer that it is obsolete, and
some will probably say don't use the Internet with it or you will
inevitably get hacked. However, the Fedora Legacy Project (see
http://fedoralegacy.org/ ) provides at least bug-fix updates for some
old RH releases. RH7.3 is one of them, and so is RH9, but FC1&2 are
not. Apart ffrom that, Fedora 2 and newer are kernel-2.6-based; Red
Hat 7.3 and 9 are 2.4-based. If you are partial to doung an upgrade
rather than a new install (slower, especially with a RAM shortage, but
simpler in some ways) RH7.3 is probably the most likely to work
correctly, both because it is most similar to 7.1, and because it is
less buggy than 9. If you are not partial to doing an upgrade rather
that installing from scratch, you might want to look at CentOS (
http://centos.org/ ). This distribution is based on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, and version 3.x is kernel-2.4-based.
.

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