Thanks, Joshua - just the sort of info I needed.
Off to find a more recent distro
Cheers
Terry
- Original Message -
> On Friday 11 February 2005 09:15, Terry Riley said something like:
> > Having inherited an elderly PIII/500MHz box with an 8Gb SCSI disk,
> > that had an apparently
On Friday 11 February 2005 09:15, Terry Riley said something like:
> Having inherited an elderly PIII/500MHz box with an 8Gb SCSI disk,
> that had an apparently unusable XP SP2 OS on it, I decided to wipe
> the disk and install my first Linux instead, using an ancient RedHat
> 7.3 distribution.
Fi
Thanks to all who replied - food for thought...
Cheers
Terry
- Original Message -
> Having inherited an elderly PIII/500MHz box with an 8Gb SCSI disk, that
> had an apparently unusable XP SP2 OS on it, I decided to wipe the disk
> and install my first Linux instead, using an ancient Red
February 11, 2005 2:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: Re: New to MySQL on Linux
Terry Riley wrote:
> install my first Linux instead, using an ancient RedHat 7.3 distribution.
>
> Having done that successfully, and increased the memory from 256 to
> 768Mb,
Terry Riley wrote:
install my first Linux instead, using an ancient RedHat 7.3 distribution.
Having done that successfully, and increased the memory from 256 to 768Mb,
I think I'm now ready to install the latest MySQL on it. All my previous
MySQL experience, unfortunatley, has been on WinNT, usua
On Fri February 11 2005 19:15, Terry Riley wrote:
> Now the question: If I'm only using this as a database (no development) on
> RH7.3, which is the preferred download? I am confused by the plethora of
> options available for Linux. Just need something that is relatively simple
> to install (either
