Re: Need help installing RH7.0 on 486 w/ Orchid SW32

[Boris Kortiak <boris boriskortiak com>]

Ok, if you aren't tired of this yet, I'll keep trying.

Thomas Dodd wrote:

> The oldcdrom.img didn't shop up untill Red Hat Linux 7.1,
> and I noticed the subject was for RHL-7.0. My bad.

Ah ha!  So if I load 7.0 on another computer, I can upgrade to to 7.2 before
moving it back to the old machine.

> I do see the sonycd535 drive on drivers.img.
> It has one parameter listed, I/O base, which
> defaults to 0x340.
>
> What chips are on the Soundcard? That might help.
> It will be needed later to get sound working for sure.

I will be picking up the computer this Friday so I can work on it at home.  That
way I can devote all of my spare time to this project (I don't have a life
anyway :)

> What did you plan to do with the box anyway?

This is for my daughters brother.  My ex has been lugging the thing around and
having her friends try to fix it.  Now that they have completely screwed it up
so that it won't run windows anymore, she decides to ask for my help.  I figure
I'm up to the challenge, but I'm not putting any money into it and she says she
can't.

> No need to give up. You could also try an older
> distro, like RHL-5.x or 4.x, that has better
> support for the non-IDE/SCSI cdroms, and low
> memory i4/586 systems.

Where would I find an older distro?  I suppose I could find it on the RedHat
site, never mind.

Anyway, thanks for all the help, I really appreciate it.