Matthew Saltzman wrote:
I have an old machine with a 366MHz Celeron, 128MB, and an nVidia NV6
Vanta video card (according to lspci). I went to install RHEL5 on it,
but the installer keeps failing. Even in text mode, it gets through the
first several setup screens, then the screen flashes and displays a
screenful of odd characters in 24x80 mode, then it stops and has to be
powered off to reboot.
I tried the vesa driver and the noprobe option, but the result is the
same. Is this a hopeless cause? Or is there a way to upgrade without
using the installer?
I have RHEL4 running on it with no problem, but I'd like to upgrade, as
I want to use this machine as a test platform for my main server, which
runs RHEL5, and there is software I use that isn't packaged for RHEL4.
TIA.
Read the documentation. I think you don't have enough RAM, and if you
have enough RAM to run Anaconda, I think you will find RHEL isn't
supported on that hardware, so that you would be as well off running CentOS.
On that hardware, if I chose to use it at all, I'd be running Debian.
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Cheers
John
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