Red Hat 5.2

[hapahano]

Howzit forum
Anybody out there still using 5.2?
I installed on a PI 200 that didn't want to run windows anymore!!!! I have been looking for a reason to try linux. This was the only way my better half would let me buy anything other then windows.

I got it installed on the second try, can log on, startx, etc.....

i bought a boxed set, how do you get the cd to work to see what is on the third cd?

any input on this would be great, as totally new to linux

[mdwatts]

Sorry to keep you waiting so long.

First check /etc/fstab to see if there is a entry for your cdrom. Something like

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0

Make sure that the mountpoint /mnt/cdrom exists and then issue the command

mount /mnt/cdrom (to mount the cdrom at the mountpoint of /mnt/cdrom)

Then either

ls -al /mnt/cdrom
or
cd /mnt/cdrom
ls -al

When done move out of the /mnt/cdrom directory (i.e. cd /) and then

umount /mnt/cdrom

Now if you don't have an entry in /etc/fstab, you can mount the cdrom using the full command

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

Change hdc to whatever your cdrom device is. And again umount /mnt/cdrom when done.

There is good reading the the fstab and mount manpages.

man fstab

man mount

[hapahano]

howzit Watts MD
TY for your reply
I will try this out and get back. TY for your time and effort. As i said befor, am TOTALLy new to linux. Have spent all day searching google as one of the other posters says to do.
Is using 5.2 a waste of time?
Again TY for your response, and I will try it out. Have only been around puters for a couple of years. On the other side, have been able to figure alot out so far

[hapahano]

Watts MD
I did find some stuff that I looked at earlier, i.e
man
info
So far having some fun with this,but my main Q is , Is using 5.2 a waste of time with 7.2 out. from all the horror stories I have heard about linux install, I was happy as "PIS" to get it right on the second try, from there , just trying to get it to do something
Again
Mahalo brudda

[Molecule Man]

RH 5.2 is alot like using Win95a. It will work, but is considered outdated. Fo an older pentium machine, it is not too bad. You might consider swtching to Vector Linux (http://ibiblio.org/vectorlinux). Play around with what you have for now before switching though.

[mdwatts]

As Molecule Man stated, RH 5.2 is quite outdated. For a P-200 you should be able to install and run at least Redhat 6.2 though I guess that would depend on the amount of memory you have.

If you have 128MB you could possibly run Redhat 7.1 or 7.2.

Have a look through this list of distros. (http://lwn.net/Distributions/) as you may find one that would run perfectly on your hardware.

Of course that all depends like I said on the amount of memory you have. If sufficient, then just stick with Redhat.

[hapahano]

TY all that replyed to my post.
My still burning "Q" is that if cdrom worked to install 5.2, shouldn't it still work now? I am going now to try what you suggested Watts MD.
Again, TY

[hapahano]

Watts MD
logged in as root, I tried /etc/fstab, got
"permission denied", also tried the mnt/cdrom command long before making this post, got " no such file or directory"
any ideas?
TY

[Linuxcool]

Try running the command cat /etc/fstab and see if it lists the contents of the fstab file to the screen.

You can try mounting the cdrom drive with this command:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

Change the /dev/hdc to whatever your cdrom is and make sure that the mount point /mnt/cdrom exists. If it doesn't, use mkdir /mnt/cdrom to create it.

If you are able to mount the cdrom drive, when you are done run cd / and then umount /mnt/cdrom.

[ 22 April 2002: Message edited by: Linuxcool ]

[hapahano]

linuxcool
I will try that. I found some other stuff earlier today, think I had the wrong install to start with. After getting this all sorted out I will try what you say.
TY