Re: 7.2 and 9.0 freeze

General Schvantzkoph wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:56:01 -0700, Robert Heiling wrote:

I recently rescued a 1995-vintage pentium 233 from the back corner of my garage
and returned the borrowed hardware to it - floppy, HD's 8.4GB, 6.4GB, & 1.6GB.
FC5, as I have here, is out of the question for that old machine, so I installed
RH7.2. It seemed to be running Ok, but there was a problem when it was left
unattended. I think the screen saver was taking effect and I'd find it frozen
with a blank screen. Space bar and/or mouse movement would not get it to come
back to life.

So I fresh installed RH9.0 (everything) and it now freezes at the text "login:"
prompt. This looks familiar, but I can't remember the problem.

I've run memtest86 for a day and there were zero errors. Win98 has been
installed on hdb-6.4GB (the 1.6GB is setup as linux swap) now and it runs
without any problems, so I doubt that the freezing is any sort of hardware
problem.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Bob

I don't think that the resource requirements for FC5 are all that much
greater then they were for RH9. You might want to try it and see what
happens.

I hadn't mentioned the other specs of this 233MMX machine, but the release notes
for FC5 indicate that the 128MB memory it has will not support graphics for
either install or operation. That was my experience a few days ago when I
started an install with just the first CD of FC5. I've also started installs of
ubuntu 6.06, suse 10.0, & centos4.2 just to see what they look like, before
loading RH9 which I've had for quite awhile.

You could also give Damn Small Linux a try, it's much lighter
weight then RH9 was and it's using modern components.

True. That are lots of alternatives, but right now I'd like to solve a problem
that shouldn't be happening.:)

Bob
.

Relevant Pages

  • Audio Woes
    ... I have just upgraded my FC4 system with a fresh install of FC5 and all ... The card is detected but the error says that I am ... alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: 7.2 and 9.0 freeze
    ... FC5, as I have here, is out of the question for that old machine, so I installed ... started an install with just the first CD of FC5. ... loading RH9 which I've had for quite awhile. ... I stuck with 7.3 through the RH8 ...
    (linux.redhat.misc)
  • Re: 7.2 and 9.0 freeze
    ... FC5, as I have here, is out of the question for that old machine, so I installed ... started an install with just the first CD of FC5. ... loading RH9 which I've had for quite awhile. ... If I were you I'd burn a DSL live CD and try it. ...
    (linux.redhat.misc)
  • Re: 7.2 and 9.0 freeze
    ... FC5, as I have here, is out of the question for that old machine, so I installed ... Does this sound familiar to anyone? ... started an install with just the first CD of FC5. ... loading RH9 which I've had for quite awhile. ...
    (linux.redhat.misc)
  • Re: 7.2 and 9.0 freeze
    ... FC5, as I have here, is out of the question for that old machine, so I installed ... started an install with just the first CD of FC5. ... loading RH9 which I've had for quite awhile. ... you might want to see whether the system will accept more RAM (and ...
    (linux.redhat.misc)