Network on NEC machine

[John Longland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
> Sent: 09 February 2005 02:48
> To: johnl at im-systems.com; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Network on NEC machine
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:57:52AM +0200, John Longland wrote:
> > 
> > Got and oldish (??) 
> 
> No question about it - you've said below that it's a Pentium 1 system
> which means it's probably 8-10 years old.
> 
> > NEC machine from someone and I am loading
> > LINUX on it. 
> 
> > The machine is a NEC, Intel CPU  Pentium 75-200
> > 
> > LINUX:	RH6.1
> 
> Red Hat Linux 6.1 is ancient.  It has known security holes and is
> missing many features found in modern releases.  It was released in
> 1999, became generally unsupported by the end of 2000 although it did
> have 2 security fixes since then but the last one was still 
> over 3 years
> ago.
> 
> I really have to question why you want to install a release 
> that old on
> that hardware.  What are you hoping to accomplish?  It's like 


You are absolutely right !
We have an (old !!! ) 6.1 system here at work that has been 
running some of our software for ages. And we are looking at
upgrading that. We can however not have down-time on this system
and as part of this process, I need to create a "duplucate" system.

So I used a spare system here. In the past I got 6.1
going on a 486(!!) without even thinking about it, so maybe I should
just use other hardware for this exercise.  NO ???

John



> installing
> Windows 98 on that system (6.1 and W98 are roughly the same age).  
> 
> I've given away a system newer than what you're trying to 
> install on...
> 
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