Thanks to all who replied - food for thought... Cheers Terry ----- Original Message -----
> Having inherited an elderly PIII/500MHz box with an 8Gb SCSI disk, that > had an apparently unusable XP SP2 OS on it, I decided to wipe the disk > and install my first Linux instead, using an ancient RedHat 7.3 > distribution. > > Having done that successfully, and increased the memory from 256 to > 768Mb, I think I'm now ready to install the latest MySQL on it. All my > previous MySQL experience, unfortunatley, has been on WinNT, usually > installed with the msi installer. > > Now the question: If I'm only using this as a database (no development) > on RH7.3, which is the preferred download? I am confused by the > plethora of options available for Linux. Just need something that is > relatively simple to install (either 4.1.9 or 5.0.x). > > Suggestions, please? > > Cheers > Terry Riley -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
