Inquiry:Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)

hadimotamedi · 08-23-2009, 11:00 PM

Dear All
Can you please do me favor and let me know from where I can download the Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) that is needed for the compatibilty issue to be installed on my Linux server ?
Thank you in advance
Regards
H.Motamedi

colucix · 08-23-2009, 11:06 PM

ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pu.../linux/7.2/en/

hadimotamedi · 08-23-2009, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by colucix

ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pu.../linux/7.2/en/

Thank you very much . But the ftp site is password protected . Can you pls do me favor and let me know how to overcome ?

colucix · 08-24-2009, 12:29 AM

It is a public archive that requires anonymous login. Usually the password is your complete e-mail address:

Code:

login:  anonymous
passwd: your.email@address

Valery Reznic · 08-24-2009, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hadimotamedi

Dear All
Can you please do me favor and let me know from where I can download the Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) that is needed for the compatibilty issue to be installed on my Linux server ?
Thank you in advance
Regards
H.Motamedi

What do you mean 'compatibility issue' ?
You need to run some old programs on this server ?

John VV · 08-24-2009, 03:42 PM

" You need to run some old programs on this server "
must be some VERY old program

running RH 7 is like running Windows 95 , or 98 in a vista and Win 7 world

Valery Reznic · 08-24-2009, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by John VV

" You need to run some old programs on this server "
must be some VERY old program

running RH 7 is like running Windows 95 , or 98 in a vista and Win 7 world

RedHat 7.2 is brand new.

I myself recently installed RedHat 3.0.3

Aaaaaa. good old days !

chrism01 · 08-24-2009, 11:18 PM

You might want to point out that this

Quote:

RedHat 7.2 is brand new.

is actually a joke, in case someone takes it seriously

hadimotamedi · 08-24-2009, 11:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix

It is a public archive that requires anonymous login. Usually the password is your complete e-mail address:

Code:

login:  anonymous
passwd: your.email@address

With special thanks for your reply , I downloaded the iso images and burned CD . But when I try to install Linux 7.2 in text mode , it will show the following lines on my display and then waits indefinitely :
"boot: text
Loading initrd.img
Loading vmlinuz ....ready
Uncomressing Linux .. Ok, booting the kernel.
"
It will wait here indefinitely . Can you please do me favor and let me know why the installation does not progress on my pc ?
Regards
H.Motamedi

Wim Sturkenboom · 08-24-2009, 11:42 PM

Your hardware might be to modern? It comes from the time of PII and early PIII computers and you definitely will have problems installing on modern hardware.

hadimotamedi · 08-24-2009, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wim Sturkenboom

Your hardware might be to modern? It comes from the time of PII and early PIII computers and you definitely will have problems installing on modern hardware.

Thank you very much for your reply . So you mean I cannot pursue further from this piont on and need to try on other platform ?
Please do me favor and confirm .
Regards
H.Motamedi

hadimotamedi · 08-25-2009, 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wim Sturkenboom

Your hardware might be to modern? It comes from the time of PII and early PIII computers and you definitely will have problems installing on modern hardware.

Sorry to forget to mention about this : "I had success in installing Linux 9 & CentOS 5 on this platform . Can you please do me favor and confirm if it still can come from my platform incompatibility issue or I need to search for its cause on other items ?"
Looking forward your reply
Regards
H.Motamedi

linuxlover.chaitanya · 08-25-2009, 12:54 AM

CentOS5 is a newer os and it would definitely wont be a problem to install it. RH9 is old too but still more than couple of years younger then RH7. So they could have the drivers for your machine.
Your issue could be related to display drivers.

Valery Reznic · 08-25-2009, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by hadimotamedi

Sorry to forget to mention about this : "I had success in installing Linux 9 & CentOS 5 on this platform . Can you please do me favor and confirm if it still can come from my platform incompatibility issue or I need to search for its cause on other items ?"
Looking forward your reply
Regards
H.Motamedi

I think RedHat 7.2 can't be installed on most (any ? ) not too ancient computers.
So you can install CentOS 5 (or anything else if you prefer it) and use it as host
for VMWare/Virtualbox/Qemu.
Inside one of the VM you can install Redhat 7.2 without too much difficult.

Wim Sturkenboom · 08-25-2009, 03:50 AM

Thanks Valery Reznic, it might solve my worry about a RH6.2 server that we're still using (it only has to survive another 1.5 - 2 years).