Hi,
Should never run High end System like RHEL6 on an old pc like PII or PIII.
Because the machine will sure crash with a motherboard or CPU failure.
It happened to me when I installed RHEL 5 on a PII machine.
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:51:42AM -0400, Roy wrote:
> > Yes, but you do not need a GUI for a server which is what RHEL is for. It
> > all depends on what he is using it for.
>
> True, but try to install RHEL6 with the text mode. It has been, in an
> advertising spin worthy of Windows Genuine Advantage (making crackers
> snicker and annoying legitimate users for years), "...streamlined and
> simplified." Meaning--you can no longer make custom partitions or
> customize package selection, i.e., crippled.
>
> While it can be done with a kickstart file, RH seems to have always been
> rather GUI oriented for a server distribution--many of their text mode
> command line tools, e.g., authconfig-tui will contain a mention that
> this tool is deprecated in favor of the GUI alternative.
>
> Anyway, this is one of my pet rants, so I'll be quiet now. :)
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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> Buffy: We have a marching jazz band?
> Oz: Yeah, but, you know, since the best jazz is improvisational,
> we'd be going off in all directions, banging into floats... scary.
> Willow: He's just being Oz.
> Oz: Pretty much full time.
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