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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