LINUX REDHAT 5.2

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Has any one used redhat 5.2..

Had it for a few years now but never got around to installing it..completely
Is it any good and how is it to install. i have three discs 2 installation discs and an application disc.

Tried to install it once but got stuck on fdisk or (druid) if i remember correctly...

any suggestions or comments welcome.

jamman

 

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You might want to check the version?

5.2 appears to be nearly 10 years old.

If you want to try Linux I'd suggest a current version of Ubuntu, as being more compatible with current hardware.

Harry.

 

Well, if you really want to learn, from the ground up, on old, old hardware, try it out. The earliest version of RedHat I tried was 7.1, and it was a difficult install, but at least it had some chance of having current drivers as that attempt was back on 2002 on hardware that was then 3 years old.

So, unless you have an old pentium or k6II box lying around unused, you're very unlikely to find a driver that will work. Trying to get this running on current hardware would be about like trying to install W95 on a dual core with sata drives and an hdmi video card. You wouldn't get very far.

 

From all the talk about linux lately I decided to learn some of linux my self, so I ended up installing Ubuntu 7.04. I am using it right now actually, so I am typing this post while I am installing KDE. I would say that if you are interested start with Ubuntu as a lot of people say it's is a good distro to use to learn linux.