WOOHOO! a Wedgy :-D I'll be there but not for long $ prevent me from a good schmoose. Sam. Karl Bongers wrote: >On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:07:11AM -0600, Sam MacDonald wrote: >... > > >>I've spent about 6 hours attempting to find out what it is and why it's >>needed to install almost anything on RH 6.2 that is new. The only good >> >> >... > > >>OpenOffice. I'm sort of to the point of installing NT and having a camp >>fire of Linux CD's (I'm really tired). >> >> > >Sam, if you come to the beer meeting tonight I'm going to give >you a wedgy. > >What you are trying to do is something akin to installing >Windows NT V3.5 and install IE5.5, or a USB camera. > >I tried installing the latest Java runtime on a dual boot NT4/Win95 box >w/48 meg of ram yesterday. Guess what, it sucked. JRE said I had to >upgrade to SP6A, and on W95 it installed but crashed horribly. >(Whine, whine, Sam, why can't I run JRE on a Win95/48MB machine?) > >So don't give us this bull about going back to windows to fix your >old distro problem. If you want to run and old distro, then run an >old distro. > >Chalk this up to a learning experience. Go install a new distro, >strip it down and run something that is less than a PIG on your >screaming P233 w/64M ram. I wouldn't run the latest Open Office >on this machine, or the latest GNOME or KDE. These are rather >large bloated applications. If you really must run this bloat, >then strip off other crap to make it all bearable(fit in memory). > >Stripping down RH9 is much more appropriate than trying to upgrade >from RH6. Install a minimal RH9, then turn off every single >etc/init.d service thing. Add the daemons back in if you need them. >Switch to using FVWM to make room for the BIG PIG OpenOffice. > >Maybe you were confused by Debians excellent upgradability. RH >is not the same. With RH6 you can't easily upgrade to >the lastest stuff. Wipe RH6 and install something newer and I will >buy you a beer instead of the wedgy. > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list