Re: Fwd:Looking for a computer with RH Linux 7.3

Moe Trin wrote:
On 14 Apr 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<1176586120.261886.160280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, CCDSJ wrote:


I am looking to buy a computer with RH Linux 7.3 and gcc 2.96


7.3 wasn't _that_ special. Just happen to have an RH 7.3 box handy...
*Minimum* specs are:
CPU: Pentium CPU (200-MHz for text mode - yow!, 400-MHz for GUI);
RAM: 32 Mb for text-mode, 128 Mb for GUI
HD: 650 Mb (everything = 3.7 Gigs, w/s with Gnome & KDE 1.8 Gigs)


It appears as if RH linux 7.3 can't be installed in any of the newer
computers. "Appears", because two techs have tried without success.


The only thing I can think of as a restriction would be the video
card, but I don't have a list of supported ones. I suppose there
could also be a USB keyboard/mouse or something, but that's a
stretch.


Anyone has such a computer? Knows where we can get one?


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Trinidad and Tobago - yeah, you might gonna have a problem there.

If you're doing software development on the box, you don't _need_ a
super fancy video system, so I'd suggest trying to install a (used
if need be) generic video card in what-ever you have and try that.

Old guy

Old guy,


Disk controllers like SATA or SAS will not work either.

Last week we had a lot of trouble even with RHEL 3 and an IBM ServeRAID 8i. Took a day for IBM support to find out what needed to be done for that an USB floppy with the driver disk could be loaded.


Best regards,


Jan Gerrit Kootstra
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