Helo -anyone here using OLD REDHAT -say 7.3 era???

[FONHello anyone here using OLD software -say like REDHAT 7.3 ?????


Iam -ona Dual Boot winXP tower computer 1.2 gb Pentium 4 -128mb ram 6.1 gig Harddrive. -Dual booting with WINdows .



I do NOT have this internet connected ,btw.


regards -chilibowlT="Arial Black"][/FONT]

why would anyone want to stay behind? there are tons of linux distros that work on old hardware.

Originally Posted by chilibowl Iam -ona Dual Boot winXP tower computer 1.2 gb Pentium 4 -128mb ram 6.1 gig Harddrive. -Dual booting with WINdows .

I'm sorry to hear that.

Originally Posted by chilibowl I do NOT have this internet connected ,btw.

Keep it that way because you do not want to connect it to the Internet no matter what. If you do there'll be hell to pay.

Originally Posted by unSpawn I'm sorry to hear that. Keep it that way because you do not want to connect it to the Internet no matter what. If you do there'll be hell to pay.

yes -THERE WOULD PROBABLY bE HELL TO PAY !!! i USED REDHAT 6.0 BACK when i first started out as a devoted newbie -say 2002 ~3 I was able to log onto a ISP I had used called LOCALNET -just dial-up @9.95 a month -I learned ina few months the Drastic reason Why one should never use a Computer on the Internet logged in as a ROOT user!!!!! I had soo many strange Emails coming thru -i could not decipher!!! and Booting up became a problem /and the OS toatlly Collapsed!!! turns out --many years later figuring it out (by reading Linux /Unix documentation Hacking Guides) my Computer got OWNED!!!!! by who I do not know!!!!-

I just wanna run on that old Tower Machine a Stable Viable DVD playing/ Duplicating workstation with the Luxury of not having to always run windows .


Regards ~chilbowl

OK so those icons were funny. Now a 6 GB disk will do as long as you attach external media or stream media from remote sources. A P4 will do too, though it'll prolly have DDR / DDR2 which has higher energy consumption compared to DDR3. What will kill this machine is having only 128 MB of RAM. That's good for text-only or maybe a floppy (not 5" ;-p) distro but nothing much else. Start by checking what max. RAM you (still) can get?..

128 meg ram ?
that was VERY low even for XP no service pack back in 2001
( DELL was even PUSHING 256 meg ram back in 2001 for XP )

was this a Win 98 upgrade to XP

CentOS 5.11 might run ? ok ?
but for 128 M you might get Text only install

i had 5.1,2and 5.3 running on a P4 with 512 meg of ram and was using it for a lot of graphics
then bumped it to 1 gig ram with 5.4

if not and seeing as this is a OFFLINE machine
the now UNSUPPORTED CentOS 4.9 will run
and it only went unsupported about 2 years ago

Yes -this Machine isa GATEWAY pentiun 4 tower ,that was just going to be trashed -owned by some Lazy-confused Kid(girlfriends Nephew ) who had a friend upgrade it to XP- but did not know how to erase Spy-Ware (not always an easy task ) so they just ran it that way till He got another computer for his next Consecutive birthdays I,believe!!????


So I chanced upon this thing and Redid the Harddrive with an another XP upgrade --Actually had it dual boot Puppy Linux & XP for a while-- not an easy task .

I might just remove the MOBO and put a iBM e -machines 2.6 level Pentium lga-- 775 board in place with 512Mb RAM -and upgrade th ePower supply -enough of this Vintage equipment

(but Audigy sound Blaster still sounds Great!!!~~~regards -chilibowl