Hi Chris, > that's why my perceived solution was to install and run from > some linux-OS-of-the-90s. I chose RH6.2, which was very popular > in those days. But after D/l-ing <RH6.2.iso> failed to get a RH6.2 > installation running on my laptop/s. > -What didi do wrong ?
I suspect you were trying to go too far back in software history while using current hardware/bios etc. Because of my problems with the linux 5.8 kernel on the latest fedora, I am now considering abandoning fedora and switching to CentOS, which seems to be both highly stable and highly recommended. I know the latest 64bit poplog (V16) works on it as well as the older 32bit poplog, as CentOS is running on my old desktop PC in the CS department, with kernel 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64 In fact I am now logged through to it from home, replying in Ved popversion ==> ** (Version 16.0 Sat Aug 22 01:31:26 BST 2020) I hope that if CentOS ever runs a 5.8 or later kernel the mistake in design will have been corrected in some way so as to allow incremental compilation to work as in Poplog. However, I so far have no personal experience installing CentOS: it was done for me by computer officers in the department, several years ago. Aaron
