Hello
I have an old Pentium machine (75-200 MHz - i586). I am not able to use
Redhat 9 CD to boot it, but could install Redhat 7.3. Now I want to
upgrade it to 8.0 or 9.0. My problem is that I am not able to use
apt-get tool to get RPMs from freshrpms site. I get "403 forbidden"
message for most of the RPMs.

Any idea what can be an alternative. I do have redhat 9.0 CDs but
unfortunately I am not able to boot from them.

Thanks and regards

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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:28:03 -0700, goyald wrote:

>   Hello
> I have an old Pentium machine (75-200 MHz - i586). I am not able to use
> Redhat 9 CD to boot it, but could install Redhat 7.3. Now I want to
> upgrade it to 8.0 or 9.0. My problem is that I am not able to use
> apt-get tool to get RPMs from freshrpms site. I get "403 forbidden"
> message for most of the RPMs.
>
> Any idea what can be an alternative. I do have redhat 9.0 CDs but
> unfortunately I am not able to boot from them.
>
> Thanks and regards

Your problem could be a bad CD, it's probably not a RH9 issue. If I were
you I install a modern lightweight distro, not RH9 which is unsupported.
Try Damn Small Linux, it's optimized for under powered machines like
yours. You'll get better performance with DSL and you'll be able to load
modern software.

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goyald@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello
> I have an old Pentium machine (75-200 MHz - i586). I am not able to use
> Redhat 9 CD to boot it, but could install Redhat 7.3. Now I want to
> upgrade it to 8.0 or 9.0. My problem is that I am not able to use
> apt-get tool to get RPMs from freshrpms site. I get "403 forbidden"
> message for most of the RPMs.

I guess you need to check your apt.conf. I think there's something
wrong...

> Any idea what can be an alternative. I do have redhat 9.0 CDs but
> unfortunately I am not able to boot from them.

Yes, you could maybe upgrade your system _from_ your red hat 7.3 using
anaconda

Regards

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>  Hello
> I have an old Pentium machine (75-200 MHz - i586). I am not able to use
> Redhat 9 CD to boot it, but could install Redhat 7.3. Now I want to
> upgrade it to 8.0 or 9.0. My problem is that I am not able to use
> apt-get tool to get RPMs from freshrpms site. I get "403 forbidden"
> message for most of the RPMs.
>
> Any idea what can be an alternative. I do have redhat 9.0 CDs but
> unfortunately I am not able to boot from them.

From memory , RH 9 still has the rawrite utility on it to create a linux
boot image onto a floppy , it's in one of the  folders on disk 1 , I think
it's called rawrite .
Use  Windows to have a look at disk 1 and if rawrite is on it , then create
the boot disk in windows and then boot to the floppy to do the RH 9 install.
I know that RH 7.3 has the rawrite utility , maybe you can use that one.


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On Monday 19 June 2006 00:42, General Schvantzkoph stood up and spoke
the following words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/

> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:28:03 -0700, goyald wrote:
> 
>
> Your problem could be a bad CD, it's probably not a RH9 issue. [...]

Actually, the inability to boot from the RedHat 9 CD has got nothing to
do with RedHat or with a bad CD, but rather with the fact that the BIOS
on older Pentium-based machines simply didn't allow for bootstrapping
from the CD device.

The obvious solution would be to create a bootable floppy with an image
typically supplied on the CD.  You create the floppy using /dd/ from
within GNU/Linux or by means of /rawrite/ in DOS - a Windows front-end
is typically also supplied. ;-)

At least, that's how it used to be. ;-)

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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:28:03 -0700, goyald wrote:

>   Hello
> I have an old Pentium machine (75-200 MHz - i586). I am not able to use
> Redhat 9 CD to boot it, but could install Redhat 7.3. Now I want to
> upgrade it to 8.0 or 9.0. My problem is that I am not able to use
> apt-get tool to get RPMs from freshrpms site. I get "403 forbidden"
> message for most of the RPMs.
>
> Any idea what can be an alternative. I do have redhat 9.0 CDs but
> unfortunately I am not able to boot from them.
>
> Thanks and regards

No offense, but on a machine that old, I would not mess with RedHat. I
HIGHLY recommed Elive. It comes as a Live CD, meaning you can boot and run
from the CD without any install to find out if it lives up to your
expectations. You can also install it with a simple click of a button. It
uses Enlightenment desktop which is much lighter than Gnome or KDE. I've
installed Elive on a P166 with 64MB RAM and it runs quite nicely. On a
200mhz machine you're not going to be very happy with Gnome or KDE - they
would slow it to a crawl. You're going to need something with a much
lighter desktop - I recommend Enlightenment or XFCE - there are probably a
dozen more.

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goyald@gmail.com wrote:
>   Hello
> I have an old Pentium machine (75-200 MHz - i586). I am not able to use
> Redhat 9 CD to boot it, but could install Redhat 7.3. Now I want to
> upgrade it to 8.0 or 9.0.

RH8 is less supported than what RH7.3 is (only 9 and 7.3 is supported by
fedoralegacy.org, they dropped 8 quite a long time ago).

This is a BIOS issue, you could try to update your BIOS, but it's not always
easy to find the latest BIOS for all mainboards and it's not 100% sure it wi
ll
fix the problem.


> My problem is that I am not able to use
> apt-get tool to get RPMs from freshrpms site. I get "403 forbidden"
> message for most of the RPMs.

That seems to be a misconfiguration.


> Any idea what can be an alternative. I do have redhat 9.0 CDs but
> unfortunately I am not able to boot from them.

Boot from floppy may be an option, all you need for creating the floppy is o
n
the CD, just boot into RH7.3 and from there create the boot floppy.


//Aho

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goyald@gmail.com wrote:
>   Hello
> I have an old Pentium machine (75-200 MHz - i586). I am not able to use
> Redhat 9 CD to boot it, but could install Redhat 7.3. Now I want to
> upgrade it to 8.0 or 9.0. My problem is that I am not able to use
> apt-get tool to get RPMs from freshrpms site. I get "403 forbidden"
> message for most of the RPMs.
>
> Any idea what can be an alternative. I do have redhat 9.0 CDs but
> unfortunately I am not able to boot from them.

I tried this upgrade a long time ago. It booted but for some reason if faile
d
on some file even though the disk passed the MD5SUM test and on the same dri
ve
that burned the iso. I never figured out the problem and dropped back to 8.0
which upgraded with no problem.

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In linux.redhat.misc goyald@gmail.com wrote:
>  Hello
> I have an old Pentium machine (75-200 MHz - i586). I am not able to use
> Redhat 9 CD to boot it, but could install Redhat 7.3. Now I want to
> upgrade it to 8.0 or 9.0. My problem is that I am not able to use
> apt-get tool to get RPMs from freshrpms site. I get "403 forbidden"
> message for most of the RPMs.

> Any idea what can be an alternative. I do have redhat 9.0 CDs but
> unfortunately I am not able to boot from them.

You might also try Xubuntu.  It's Ubuntu with Xfce instead of Gnome or
KDE (as are in Ubuntu and Kubuntu respectively).  The live CD is also
an install CD.  I'm running it on an old Toshiba laptop with a
PentiumII and 128 MB RAM.

www.xubuntu.org

-alan

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goyald@gmail.com wrote:
>   Hello
> I have an old Pentium machine (75-200 MHz - i586). I am not able to use
> Redhat 9 CD to boot it, but could install Redhat 7.3. Now I want to
> upgrade it to 8.0 or 9.0. My problem is that I am not able to use
> apt-get tool to get RPMs from freshrpms site. I get "403 forbidden"
> message for most of the RPMs.

I'm going to recommend you don't upgrade. I use 7.3 on older machines I
refurb and give away. It's still supported by Fedora Legacy Project, and
it's quite safe on the Net. You can still run OpenOffice and compile
quite a few apps. There aren't many distros which would work as well,
and darned few that would allow the use of a GUI.

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