Hi folks,
I have a little problem installing RHL 5.2. I have an old 386/33
(Dell 333P with 16MB, 500MB EIDE drive, 3c503 NIC, video onboard (SVGA), two
serial ports onboard (16450), parallel port onboard, IDE controller onboard,
an additional I/O card with two serial ports (16550A) and a game and a
parallel port, 387/33 co-proc is installed) which I use for
experimenting and which I might turn into my
dial-up/firewall/masquerading machine (hence the extra I/O card to get
the faster serial ports for a 56K external modem).
I had RHL 6.0 installed on that machine (yes, it was actually running
(well, crawling...)), but I decided to go back to RHL 5.2, as that
enables me to compile for this my machine without fuzz on one of my two
(faster...) main machines which are both still running RHL 5.2 (no, I have
no intention of upgrading either of them - at least not before at least RHL
6.2). Problem is: I can't get the RHL 5.2 installation disk to boot on
that 386. I tried both the original boot.img as supplied on the CD and
the newer one from the errata. In both cases, the machine starts with
"Uncompressing ......." and then "boot failed". Dead.
Question is now:
a) Does anybody have an idea how to fix this?
or, alternatively
b) Is it possible to install RHL 5.2 using the RHL 6.0 installation
disk? The 6.0 disk boots fine... Reason I'm asking is that the menu
you get when you boot from the installation disks states that it can
be used to install Red Hat Linux from version 2.0 - hence my idea to
use the 6.0 version for 5.2.
I'd be grateful for suggestions, ideas, etc.pp.
Cheerio,
Thomas
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