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RedHat 7.2 on laptop

  • 14-04-2005 8:25am
    #1
    motrocco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭


    heh there folks,

    I just installed ReaHat 7.2 on my laptop, yes I know it's an old distro but it was the only one that worked. machine is a celeron 433, with 256mb of ram so it should be alright.

    What I am wondering is how hard would it be to recompile Linux with all my drivers with the latest kernel? Is there much to this? I am a complete newbie to Linux (apart from network confiugration, samba, firewall-ing). What would be the best method of approaching this?

    Any recommendations to make regarding get this new box setup as a dev environment? I am really looking to learn Linux from the bottom up I suppose..

    Thanks in advance for any help.


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  • #2
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    If you're going to recompile everything with the latest kernel, you're probably better off updating all your software as well, ie, using a modern distro. Fedora Core 3 is the latest from Red Hat (well, there's RHEL, but you gotta pay for it :p) or even Gentoo. Installing it was the equivalent or smacking my head off the wall for a few days straight, but loathe as I am to admit it, it was a real learning expereience and runs well. Booted into a Fluxbox desktop, I'm using 35-40mb of RAM (with nothing running), compared to 80 or so with FC3 and 110 in Windows 2k.

    And why will no other distro work? I've even gotten Linux to run perfect on those godawful Packard Bell laptops with the SIS sound and graphics cards. If it can run on those, it can probably run on yours.


  • #3
    motrocco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭motrocco


    Fenster wrote:
    And why will no other distro work?
    If it can run on those, it can probably run on yours.


    Between bad downloads, distro getting corrupted etc, that was the only one that worked flat off the cd so it got installed after burning nearly 20 cd that didn't work or had a problem. Yeah I know md5 checks etc, but when chcecked some of the cd's ALWAYS failed.

    Mess.


  • #4
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    I've most recent ones on disc, drop me a PM if you want me to mail you a copy of whatever.


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