Re: Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Pedro Morales wrote:
> Dear Linux experts,
>
> I'm a student of the Keiser College in Orlando, FL. We
> are in the Network Administration Program and we are
> starting to learn to use Linux, we all have great
> interest in beocming Linux experts but we encounter a
> small problem, we can't run the GUI version.
>
> Everytime we try to run it, we get an error and can't
> start it, it says that can't find the monitor, during
> installation the monitor was auto detected, but the
> video card wasn't, we have all the specs of the
> computer but the video card was not listed in the
> installation list.

Red Hat Linux 7.2 has been dead for a long time.  All "free" versions
of Red Hat Linux are dead--the last one being Red Hat Linux 9, which
Red Hat end-of-lifed April 30 (just three days ago).

You can download RH9 from their servers or a mirror and install it.
Keep in mind that since it's been EOL'd, it won't be updated by Red Hat
any longer.  The Fedora Legacy project will continue to update it, but
you will have to get your updates from them (up2date will NOT work).

> Since it's a college, they buy the computers by lot
> from brand manufacturers, in our case, it's IBM's. The
> book we're using is Thompson Course Technology Linux+
> Guide to Linux Certification, and using the free Red
> Hat Linux 7.2 that comes with it. I suspect that the
> video card wasnt found because it's an old version of
> Red Hat on a new computer.

Exactly.

> I'm wondering if there's a way to add that video card
> from the linux test mode after installing? A friend
> and I reinstalled linux many times with full options
> testing the different video cards made by Intel (since
> it's a built in Video), spending hours in that but no
> solution.

It's not trivial.  You'd need to build the new driver for the old
system.  Unless you have some experience, you'll find it difficult.

> If needed, our computers are:
> IBM ThinkCentre 8189-A4U
> Pentium 4 HT
> 512ram
>
> and well, I'm sure you guys can get teh detailed specs
> from IBM.
>
> We'd appreciate any possible solutions.

Why don't you download Fedora Core 1 from one of the mirror sites or
from the main RedHat site?  Fedora Core 1 was going to be Red Hat Linux
10, but Red Hat decided to go the "enterprise" route.

The primary Fedora website is http://fedora.redhat.com.
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