On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:56:51AM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Friday 28 October 2011 09:25:10 Andre Robatino wrote: > > The site http://legacy.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/ has some old Red Hat > > Linux content. Unfortunately, it's very incomplete. I have archives of the > > install discs going back at least to RH 7.0. (I started on RH 6.0 so might > > have something older around.) > > On a side note, I also have original CD's of the RH 6.2 installation (binary > and source), which was readable. The iso image I created from the CD has the > correct hash. > > However, the damn thing fails to install in a virtual machine. I use > VirtualBox, but have tried EQMU and VMware as well, with the same results. > The > anaconda installer bombs out with a traceback in the middle of the > installation, each time in a different place. Sometimes it almost gets to the > end, but it never installed completely. >
I recall there being some iuncompatibility between rh 6.x and newr (P4) processors. or some similar issue, at least, such that I was not able to run 6.3 in a vmware workstation VM on a P4 box. > I am puzlled by what might be wrong, since I used to install that distro > successfully back in the day on physical hardware. I tried to do a minimal > install (hoping to avoid the traceback), tweaked the installation parameters > (partitions, choice of packages, etc.), all to no effect. I also tried > tweaking > the vm specs to look more like typical hardware back then, without success. > Google didn't help either. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > Best, :-) > Marko > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) ----------------------------- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
