red hat

[bailey]

will the red hat version 7.2 run ok on my p4 system that version 9 is running real good on ?

the labs for school is based on 7.2 and I have 9.0
I was wanting to load 7.2 on that system but not sure if it would detect the hardware as good as 9.0 did

[RHLinuxGUY]

why run 7.2? stick with nine its better. if u dont like it, go with 8.0, ive never used 8.0 but its a little hardder then 9 to install... besides u dont have ot use the Shell that much either. o and ya it itll work better.

[bailey]

the instructor thought that when I did the labs for the class that maybe the results would be differant sence the labs are based on the 7.2.

hey I am happy with 9, but this is for school work

[RHLinuxGUY]

In my opinion 7.2 was horrible, but hey if u like it sitck with it, 9.0 is much easier to handle, and u probably wont see much of a difference in speed with ur rig, but if ur P4 has hyper-threading capabilities u need to get the new Kernel 2.4.2.(or something like that) o yea SCREW Micro$oft!

[bailey]

I think your missing what I am saying, I have never even seen 7.20

I don't even have it

but for the labs for school to be done here at home, I will need it to do download it and burn it to a cd and install it before I can do the labs,

otherwise I will have to do the labs at school.

it is not even a matter if I like it or not, as soon as the labs are done it will go into the trash and ver 9.0 reinstalled

[Dangermouse1]

I am not sure but maybe the easiest thing to do would be put it in its partition and dual boot, you can then see if its ok. If it is, fine if not take it off.

[Floppyman]

It might be more trouble than its worth (installing RH 7.2 over RH 9) from a hardware compability point of view, seeing that you are using newer hardware.

[bailey]

I would not be installing it over
format drive and clean install
just to be able to do the labs
when done with the labs remove it and put 9 back on

its just the hardware I am concerned about

[kilgoretrout]

If you have the room on your hard drive(3 to 5 GB should be enough), make a separate partition for 7.2 on your drive and install rh 7.2 there and keep rh 9. During the 7.2 install elect not to install a boot loader and you'll be prompted to make a boot floppy for it. This is necessary; if you let 7.2 install a boot loader, it will overwrite the existing rh 9 boot loader and will not create a boot entry for it. Unless you've made a boot floppy for rh 9 you won't be able to boot into it.
Following the above, you can boot into 7.2 with the boot floppy or edit your rh 9 grub config file to create a boot entry for 7.2.
Note, you can use the same swap partition for rh 9 and rh 7.2. No need to make a separate one.

[Floppyman]

Do you have an older system you could maybe use for this, bailey? Or maybe a laptop?

[bailey]

not at the moment, but that would solve the problem

do you know what the system requirements are for ver 7.2

maybe I can find something

[Floppyman]

I couldn't tell ya for sure, but I do remember running RH 7 on a system with dual PIII 600E's a couple years ago. I'm pretty sure that it (RH 7) doesn't need that much CPU power as dual system had. HTH