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building an *OLD* PC will drive you nuts
I needed to test something with old gcc, which meant using version 3.x
of RHEL. I downloaded Centos 3.9, but you neeed a ten-year old PC to run it! I have a mainboard with Intel 965+ICH8, but required some BIOS fiddling to get the installer to see the CD drive. Next problem, graphics card. Most of the stuff RHEL3 supported was from the AGP era. The generic ati driver will fire up later cards, although with limitations, like few choices of resolution. Next hassle is ethernet card. It is really finicky about those. I had to try 4 different cards from junkbox before it would recognise one. And of course, it doesn't support the audio chip, but I do not need that. After all that it finally runs pretty well for a Core 2 with DDR2 667. |
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building an *OLD* PC will drive you nuts
On Sunday, July 13, 2014 10:16:53 AM UTC+8, wrote:
I needed to test something with old gcc, which meant using version 3.x of RHEL. I downloaded Centos 3.9, but you neeed a ten-year old PC to run it! I have a mainboard with Intel 965+ICH8, but required some BIOS fiddling to get the installer to see the CD drive. Next problem, graphics card. Most of the stuff RHEL3 supported was from the AGP era. The generic ati driver will fire up later cards, although with limitations, like few choices of resolution. You can still get the ATI linux driver version 8.28.8 It will work on the X11 that is in RHEL3.x. Anything older you are faeces out of luck. http://support.amd.com/en-us/downloa...radeon-prer200 |
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