Thanks, Joshua - just the sort of info I needed. Off to find a more recent distro....
Cheers Terry ----- Original Message ----- > On Friday 11 February 2005 09:15, Terry Riley said something like: > > 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. > > First suggestion: get something recent: Suse 9.2, Mandrake 10.1, Fedora > Core 3, the latest Debian. A distro that old will have major security > (and probably usability issues). > > > 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). > > I would doubt the current MySQL RPM's would support something as old as > RH 7.3. If you install something recent, there will be recent versions > of MySQL (Mandrake even has 5.0 in the contrib section, I would assume > Fedora would too. > > You will have to intstall the server portion, and probably the client > portion. You then can use the MySQL GUI tools to admin the box from a > Windows machine. > > Using something like Mandrake or Fedora, their installer tools will > resolve all the dependencies for you. > > Hope that gets you started a little. If you need more detail, feel > free to ask. > > j----- k----- > > > -- > Joshua J. Kugler -- Fairbanks, Alaska -- ICQ#:13706295 > Every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess, in heaven, on earth, > and under the earth, that Jesus Christ is LORD -- Count on it! -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
