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looking for Redhat 6.0
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| bravemonkey 2007-01-10, 1:17 pm |
| Hi,
I'm looking for a Redhat 6.0 i386 ISO. I haven't been able to find one
anywhere - yes, I know it's very old.
I'm trying to install linux on an SGI 320, and this is the distribution
recommended in the walkthrough
(http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/)
Any help would be appreciated!
lincoln
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| Scott Lurndal 2007-01-10, 1:17 pm |
| "bravemonkey" <lincolng@gmail.com> writes:
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for a Redhat 6.0 i386 ISO. I haven't been able to find one
>anywhere - yes, I know it's very old.
>
>I'm trying to install linux on an SGI 320, and this is the distribution
>recommended in the walkthrough
>(http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/)
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>Any help would be appreciated!
>
>lincoln
>
All of the older redhat releases are at ftp://legacy.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux
scott
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| General Schvantzkoph 2007-01-10, 1:17 pm |
| On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:10:42 -0800, bravemonkey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a Redhat 6.0 i386 ISO. I haven't been able to find one
> anywhere - yes, I know it's very old.
>
> I'm trying to install linux on an SGI 320, and this is the distribution
> recommended in the walkthrough
> (http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/)
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> lincoln
You should be able to install a modern distribution on that box. If RH6
supported it then more modern distros should work also. If I were you I'd
try FC6 and see if that works. If it doesn't then try CentOS 3.x which is
RHEL 3. RHEL 3 uses the 2.4 kernel instead of the modern 2.6 kernel.
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| bravemonkey 2007-01-11, 7:28 pm |
| Hi Scott,
Thanks but no go - the directory for 6.0 is empty.
Scott Lurndal wrote:
> All of the older redhat releases are at ftp://legacy.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux
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> scott
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| bravemonkey 2007-01-11, 7:28 pm |
| Thanks. I'll give CentOS a try, but I think the problem was more with
the proprietary hardware then with the OS. Part of the problem is the
SGI 320 can't boot from CD or from normal floppy boot disks.
General Schvantzkoph wrote:
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> You should be able to install a modern distribution on that box. If RH6
> supported it then more modern distros should work also. If I were you I'd
> try FC6 and see if that works. If it doesn't then try CentOS 3.x which is
> RHEL 3. RHEL 3 uses the 2.4 kernel instead of the modern 2.6 kernel.
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| pavlos 2007-01-11, 7:28 pm |
| I have the boxed set of Redhat 6.0 at home. If you /absolutely/ need 6.0
and not a more recent release, I can make a copy of the CD and mail it.
/paul
bravemonkey wrote:
> Hi Scott,
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> Thanks but no go - the directory for 6.0 is empty.
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> Scott Lurndal wrote:
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| General Schvantzkoph 2007-01-12, 1:28 am |
| On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:36:19 -0800, bravemonkey wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Thanks. I'll give CentOS a try, but I think the problem was more with
> the proprietary hardware then with the OS. Part of the problem is the
> SGI 320 can't boot from CD or from normal floppy boot disks.
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> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
What is an SGI 320? SGI machines were MIPS based for a long time. If that
box has a MIPS instead of an X86 then you aren't going to be able to use a
standard distro.
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| Robert Heiling 2007-01-12, 1:28 am |
| General Schvantzkoph wrote:
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> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:36:19 -0800, bravemonkey wrote:
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> What is an SGI 320? SGI machines were MIPS based for a long time. If that
> box has a MIPS instead of an X86 then you aren't going to be able to use a
> standard distro.
This is pitiful. First you give him that standard misadvice and now it turns out
you're not sure it will work after all and didn't know what system he was using.
He has evidence and already knows that RH 6.0 will work. I also have a boxed set
with manuals and it's too bad he doesn't live a little closer, but my website
can't hold files the size of that iso for him to download.
Bob
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| bravemonkey 2007-01-12, 1:16 pm |
| Hi Robert,
Would you be able to ftp it to my server? It's only the one install
disc that I need - if you can, I can email you the login info. That
would be much appreciated.
Robert Heiling wrote:
> This is pitiful. First you give him that standard misadvice and now it turns out
> you're not sure it will work after all and didn't know what system he was using.
> He has evidence and already knows that RH 6.0 will work. I also have a boxed set
> with manuals and it's too bad he doesn't live a little closer, but my website
> can't hold files the size of that iso for him to download.
>
> Bob
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| Robert Heiling 2007-01-12, 1:16 pm |
| Sure! I'd be happy to. My address is good so send me the server login details
and what form you'd like it in.
Bob
bravemonkey wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
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> Hi Robert,
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> Would you be able to ftp it to my server? It's only the one install
> disc that I need - if you can, I can email you the login info. That
> would be much appreciated.
>
> Robert Heiling wrote:
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| Scott Lurndal 2007-01-12, 1:16 pm |
| General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> writes:
>On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:36:19 -0800, bravemonkey wrote:
>What is an SGI 320? SGI machines were MIPS based for a long time. If that
>box has a MIPS instead of an X86 then you aren't going to be able to use a
>standard distro.
SGI 320 is an intel box that SGI foolishly designed and built during
the reign of Rick Beluzzo. Good graphics boxes. There was also a
SGI 540 server box.
scott
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| Kevin Snodgrass 2007-01-13, 1:31 am |
| bravemonkey wrote:
> Hi Peter,
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> As with the FTP directories that other people suggested, when you
> actually go into the 6.0 ISO folder at sunet.se, you would find it
> empty.
So? Go to:
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/di...inux/6.0/en/os/
Select your arch, download all the files, make your own ISO file and
burn it. Back in the day everyone did this... (Actually, back in the
day, we built install floppies.)
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| Robert Heiling 2007-01-13, 1:15 pm |
| Kevin Snodgrass wrote:
> bravemonkey wrote:
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> So? Go to:
> http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/di...inux/6.0/en/os/
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> Select your arch, download all the files, make your own ISO file and
> burn it. Back in the day everyone did this... (Actually, back in the
> day, we built install floppies.)
Although its' true that the basic files are there to to make an ISO, that
suggestion is a bit like telling him to lift himself by his own
bootstraps. Without the target system (Linux 6.0) having been installed,
theres' no obvious way to make use of mkisofs. Theres' no evidence that
another Linux system is available and hints to the contrary and his
headers show that he is posting from Windows. In Windows he would need
to buy commercial software to make the ISO. A trial copy of one that I
have is limited to creating ISO´s no larger than 300 MB, far below what
is needed.
So it appears that the only practical route is via an ISO that already
exists.
Bob
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| bravemonkey 2007-01-15, 7:30 pm |
| It was an ISO I needed - I'm too much of a linux n00b to make my own
iso within linux.
I'm happy to report though that RedHat 6.0 is installed and running on
the SGI 320, and the major components (gnome, networking, mouse and
keyboard) are working.
Thanks for the ISO, Bob, and to everyone else for suggestions!
lincoln
On Jan 13, 11:09 am, Robert Heiling <robh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Kevin Snodgrass wrote:
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are there to to make an ISO, that[vbcol=seagreen]
> suggestion is a bit like telling him to lift himself by his own
> bootstraps. Without the target system (Linux 6.0) having been installed,
> theres' no obvious way to make use of mkisofs. Theres' no evidence that
> another Linux system is available and hints to the contrary and his
> headers show that he is posting from Windows. In Windows he would need
> to buy commercial software to make the ISO. A trial copy of one that I
> have is limited to creating ISO=B4s no larger than 300 MB, far below what
> is needed.
>
> So it appears that the only practical route is via an ISO that already
> exists.
>=20
> Bob
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