Re: Unable to install Redhat 5.0 on my laptop

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:11:05 +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

General Schvantzkopf wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:38:10 -0800, bosl3y1j wrote:

Just finish attending a Redhat Admin course and got a free set of
Redhat Server 5 CD's. I tried to install on a brand new hard drive but
it comes up to the install screen there is a message that says
"Unknown keyword in Config File" .When I choose any of the 3 options
it tells me it can't find the kernel. I talked with my instructor and
was told that it may be something in my BIOS. We tried serveral sets
of CD' with the same failure.He gave me Fedora 7 and it loaded right
up. He thinks there may be an update from Redhat that was implemented
on Fedora7 but not pushed out on Redhat Server 5. Anybody have any
info??


Thanks

Jack

RHEL uses a hideously obsolete kernel, Fedora is up to date. RHEL is
targeted at servers which change more slowly than desktops and laptops
although I'm not sure how they get away with using old kernels even in
the server world. If you aren't running commercial software that
requires RHEL you should use Fedora. Fedora is up to the minute whereas
RHEL is frozen in time. A RHEL release is feature frozen many months
before it's initial release, after that there are bug and security
fixes but no new features or new kernels. If you do need to run a piece
of commercial software that won't run on Fedora you can use VMware to
run RHEL on top of Fedora, I run CentOS5.1 and CentOS4.5 on top of
Fedora. Virtualization separates the hardware compatibility problem
from the software compatibility problem.

Or if you're a cheap ***, you can use Xen to run most Linuxes and
UNIX's para-virtualized for a performance benefit, or fully virtualized
with a contemporary virtualization supporting CPU for many other OS's.

Can't run SCO OpenServer with Xen though, dang it!

VMware works better than Xen and it also runs on the latest kernel. The
Fedora's Xen kernel is 2.6.21, Fedora 7 & 8 are using 2.6.23 for non-Xen
purposes. VMware Server is free so there isn't any cost difference.

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