Re: 7.2 and 9.0 freeze

Some Other Somebody Else wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:25:38 -0700, Robert Heiling
<robheil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

General Schvantzkoph wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:30:02 -0700, Robert Heiling wrote:

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

If you really want to get RH9 working your best bet would be to search for
your problems in Google Groups and see if you can dredge up an answer that
someone posted when RH9 was current. RH9 is so old that most of us have
forgotten the fine details of it's problems.

I was only hoping that it might be a configuration problem that I could edit and
that someone here might remember off the top of their head.

Using a contemporary
lightweight distro means that there will be other current users to answer
questions. DSL is so small (50 MBytes) that you can download it in a few
minutes. If I were you I'd burn a DSL live CD and try it. If it works
satisfactorily then you can forget about getting RH9 to work.

That isn't what I want to do. It will take me less time to simply reinstall with
a different configuration and see if that does the trick. It wasn't supposed to
happen in the first place, so that may be the easiest fix.

Bob

If you really prefer to use an old Red Hat version at this point
rather than switch distributions, you should at least use the
fedoralegacy.org updates (available for 7.3 and 9, though not for
7.2). That might solve the problem.

Now that's responsive to my posted question. I'll take a look at those. Thanks!

I used 7.3 with only 128MB RAM a
few years ago and it seemed tolerable, though I would guess some
applications (OpenOffice?) would have had trouble if I'd tried them,
regardless of the distribution. Even if you go with DSL or something,
you might want to see whether the system will accept more RAM (and
whether you can find compatible RAM cheap enough).

The RedHat 6.0 disks are still laying around, so I know that was installed on it
back then and I think there was something else I had on it prior to that
(non-RedHat). So it's not the first time that linux has been on it and the
motive is not simply to get some linux running on it. This exercise is solely
for experimentation and I won't be putting any money into hardware either as the
computer isn't worth it. This system that I'm on now boots FC4, FC5, Win2K and
WinXP, so I don't need that other one for anything other than the fact that I
was going to connect it to my LAN and do some experiments. I have another one to
try if that one doesn't work out.

Thanks for the tip.

Bob
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