halp, installing on older comp
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 19:00:12 UTC 2008
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Bazooka Joe <fastfish at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to install f8 on an older computer to be a fax server. No
> gui (headless whatever).
>
> 256 mg ram
> 866 mhz cpu
> no dvd player
>
> I downloaded the boot.iso but the ftp and http installs don't work - I
> think it might be a bug and will report unless others have gotten it
> to work
>
> I am in the process of downloaded the live cd but am doubtful I will
> get it to run on my limited resources.
>
> what should I do now? - any suggestions? Give up on f8? Go back to an
> older version of fedora? Different distro, if so what?
You really want to use a long lived distribution for your fax server.
Try CentOS. All the familiarity and goodness of Red Hat/Fedora minus
the logos. CD ISO images all the way back to CentOS 2 are still
available. CentOS 5 is their latest version.
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