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