<DIV>Hi, Greg</DIV> <DIV>Ah, yes. Sorry its a TNT2 M64 32mb mem.</DIV> <DIV>Sounds like Slackware maybe a possibility, but what about patches/updates is there any cost to get them, or are they free to download?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks, Ron:)<BR><BR><B><I>Greg Neumann <DadNeumann@verizon.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Ron,<BR>The only thing I've been able to get to run "out of the box" on my<BR>dual Pentium Pro<BR>196 meg RAM<BR>Matrox Millennium GX 8 meg PCI video,<BR>has been Slackware. Right now, I'm using Slackware 10.0 with both a 2.4 <BR>series and a 2.6 series custom compiled kernels, mostly to get the SMP <BR>stuff right.<BR>If by "TXT2 M64" you meant "TNT2 M64", it should run quite nicely with <BR>an "out of the box" install.<BR>I'm surprised Ubuntu won't work. I would think the TNT M64 would be seen <BR>in the autodetect. Jesse?<BR>Much as
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"devout" Slacker, Ubuntu's pretty darn good for somebody <BR>who doesn't want to do a lot of tweaking to get things going. Be advised <BR>that you may have to custom compile a kernel to get something as old as <BR>a Pentium Pro to run SMP. That's not a big deal in Slackware. I don't <BR>know about other new distros, as they won't work on my system anyway. :-(<BR>-Greg<BR><BR><BR>Ron Maggio wrote:<BR>> Hi all.<BR>> I did not mean to start such a war over my request asking if someone might have a copy of this distro. I have been to UB's ftp site, and I see they have dropped their archive of Red Hat, but they still archive Mandrake with all (that I know of) their patches and updates. Which seams very strange to me that they kept the Mandrake archive but dumped Red Hat's:( <BR>> <BR>> Now for the reason why I wanted Red Hat 7.2 I'm not as knowledgeable as the rest of you, but if you would look at the systems requirements in the readme file or for that matter on the b
ox you
will notice not only drive space and ram needed to run it, you'll also will notice the Video cards supported as well. Since most of my equipment is legacy (I'm not rolling in money) I would like to install something that would be compatible with my old junk equipment, and able to run the first time I boot up!<BR>> <BR>> This is what I have have for an install at this time.<BR>> IBM IntelliStation 6899-18U<BR>> Pentium Pro 200MHz dual processor<BR>> 256mb EDO ECC ram<BR>> Gainward/CardExpert PCI (this system has no AGP)<BR>> TXT2 M64 32mb Video Ram<BR>> I tried newer distro's that I thought where easy to install, but I do not have a sufficient video card to drive the GUI. I'm looking for something rather easy to install, and would work with my equipment. If you have any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks, Ron:)<BR>> <BR>><BR>> <BR>> ---------------------------------<BR>> Yahoo! Personals<BR>> Skip t
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