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What current Linux will work on an Pentium 1 processor? - Forums Linux

What current Linux will work on an Pentium 1 processor?

Posted: 19 Nov 2006 10:24 PM PST

In article news:<com>, David wrote: 

I've run a fairly current Debian ("Sarge" I think, I don't have the machine
here to check) on a Pentium I with MMX instructions. I think it should run
on any '586. That hardware is a bit inadequate for other reasons (2GB HDD,
64MB RAM) but Debian does run with KDE ... albeit slowly.

I had to create a swap partition before it would even install, though.

Cheers,
Daniel.

Download FC

Posted: 19 Nov 2006 05:57 PM PST

"Fei" <com> wrote in message
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DVD iso images can get as big as 8.4G. If you are on a Windows machine
and using FAT32, the file size limit is 4G.

later.....

Setting up a blog server?

Posted: 19 Nov 2006 06:47 AM PST

On Nov 19, 2:47 pm, Neil Jones <com> wrote: 
I guess this is not a question I would expect in this group. But I
think you need to search and read some articles on setting up LAMP
(Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), with database and PHP support it is
quite easy to install a blog server (e.g. wordpress, serendipity) on
your web server. 

Installing Linux on a remote machine and *locally* running it

Posted: 19 Nov 2006 03:00 AM PST

Baho Utot wrote: 

That's certainly not an option. In the worst case, I can simply go ahead
with the hdd images as described in my original post.

Fabio

Ubuntu and Windows dual-boot

Posted: 18 Nov 2006 06:05 AM PST

<com> wrote in message
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First of all, look here, it has enough info on how to fix your problem:
If not, google boot.ini commands.

http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

Generically, have the boot.ini point to the second partition so
Windows will boot.

Second and I am trying to be kind, your partitions are "goofy"
for a dual boot Windows/Linux machine. Since I don't know
the history of this computer, I will go through what I would
do if I were in front of it.

1. back up all relevant data for reinstalling later.
2. use a diag program on the hd to make sure is it good
3. wipe the drive
4. install Windows and have it create the first partition where it
will reside and don't have it take up the whole drive, leave
enough space to install Linux. If you need to share files between
Linux and Windows, create a second partition and format it
FAT32, it does have a file size limit of 4G.
5. Install other Windows programs as needed.
6. Once Windows is installed, install Linux with the appropriate
partitions. Use the Windows loader and don't install GRUP in
the MBR, install it in the /boot partition. With newer versions
of Linux this setup part should be a no brainer.
7. Re-install the data and away you go.

The above assumes that your motherboard/IDE controller is LBA-48
compatible. If it is not, then the install configuration is a bit trickier.
Windows is brain dead when it comes to other os's. It likes to be
installed in the first partition although it can be installed on others. So
the easiest install process is to do Windows first and Linux second.
Windows also likes to assume that it is the only os on the computer.
Virtualization will change that.

If you don't want to go through the above, you can edit the boot.ini
file and change where it points to for the Windows partition but to
learn the format of that line try google. If that doesn't work, repost.

Fedora installer wont start with two hard disks

Posted: 17 Nov 2006 03:51 AM PST

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:38:45 GMT Matt Giwer <remover.rr.com> wrote:
| net wrote:
|> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:40:03 GMT Matt Giwer <remover.rr.com> wrote:
|
|> | com wrote:
|> |> I managed to install Fedora. But the IO is ridiculously slow. I dont
|> |> know why.I upgraded the kernel. Even then when i try to boot the system
|> |> without ide=nodma i get a kerel panic
|
|> | Get a drive cable and install the second disk on the other socket as a second
|> | master. Put the jumper back to master or leave it in autodetect. The slave has a
|> | slower I/O but usually not noticable. However CD and DVD drives do not suffer
|> | from slave status.
|
|> You can lead the jumper set to slave and it will be /dev/hdd instead of
|> /dev/hdc if you want. Works fine in Linux, although maybe some legacy
|> installers in some distributions might get confused.
|
| Not can't argue but he said the I/O was slow and the only thing I know that can
| cause slow I/O is the slave it automatically slower but as I said, usually not
| noticable. I do not know what happens if slave on the end, vice middle,
| connector. Have you tried it?

I've never see any difference between master and slave speed, nor between
end and middle speed. But I have seen differences in I/O errors with the
middle getting more.

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linux and usb audio (OT??)

Posted: 17 Nov 2006 01:06 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Mike Scott <stopper.scottsonline.org.uk>: 

I'd suggest to take a look at Fedora Core, the community version
of RH (http://fedora.redhat.com/). AFAIK FC 6 is recent, I have
one box here running FC since FC2 to FC5 now. Any hardware,
anything USB (including audio) plugged into the machine just
works with no user interaction required. Did install FC5 on some
recent laptop (FSC iirc) lately, any hardware including wireless
lan was picked up on install and setup automatically.

Just be sure to run 'yum update' after installing and run it from
time to time, there is a cron job that can automate this for you,
if 24/7 online.

A few tricks to get the most out of FC6 with the least effort,
especially to get around some problems with audio (mp3) not
working out of the box, due to license problems:

http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc6-tips.php
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html

Good luck

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A newbie - What are differences between Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Posted: 16 Nov 2006 10:38 PM PST

Matt Giwer wrote:
 

FC _THAN_ EL
 


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will playstation3 run linux?

Posted: 16 Nov 2006 05:23 PM PST

Looks like a smart move from linux ...might be a big break through.
To bad I am a hardcore lightwave fan no experience with blender... But
running it on a cell cpu would make it lightning fast. Any ideas if someone
succeeded running lightwave on linux ? Sorry but i am going to post this
question in other linux channels also (dont want to spam but someone maybe
knows about lighwave and linux :P

Thanks for already some answer.

Is this a BIOS problem, a kernel problem or a user problem :-)

Posted: 15 Nov 2006 08:36 PM PST

com wrote:
 

Apologies. I'd forgotten about the Xeons <slaps head>

Ubuntu confusion?

Posted: 15 Nov 2006 09:26 AM PST

Right shell prompt. Shell prompt. I got it, it's a shell prompt.

Shellllll prommmmpt....

John Hasler wrote: 

Linux RH9 installation problem

Posted: 15 Nov 2006 02:34 AM PST

com did eloquently scribble: 
 
 

How old is this laptop?
Because redhat 9???? That's been obsolete for over 3 years now.
Try installing windows 95 on a modern machine. I think you catch my drift.

You need a more up to date distro. Try Fedora 6 (fedora 1 was the first fork
off redhat 9, so it goes to show how far you are behind)
 
 

My advice... Don't.
Is there any reason you WANT to install a dead distribution that's been out
of date for 3 years?

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Permission denied when starting xterm

Posted: 14 Nov 2006 11:17 AM PST

On 15 Nov 2006 23:03:30 -0800, farseer
<net> wrote: 
/home/<myhomedir> is not a command. If you omit -e and everything after it,
xterm should start your default shell. If you add the "-ls" option, xterm
should start a login shell, executing your .profile or .bash_profile.

 

xterm -geometry 80x24



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