Wearing the Red Hat: A review of CentOS 3.9
It's not in the "one small step for man" category, but my quest to run something -- anything -- from Red Hat on my VIA C3 Samuel-equipped test box has finally been successful. But not without a lot of effort.
The current versions of Fedora and Red Hat clones Scientific Linux and CentOS -- live CDs, install CDs, net-install CDs -- wouldn't just refuse to install, they wouldn't even boot. I tried special boot codes. Nothing.
Then it dawned on me: CentOS, the leading clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, doesn't just offer its current release, CentOS 5. It also has versions 2, 3 and 4 -- all still receiving support in the form of security updates. Maybe I could go back in time, in Linux time anyway, to an era when Red Hat wasn't so hostile to the VIA C3 Samuel.
So I downloaded and burned the CentOS 4.4 Live CD. It wouldn't boot, either.
Not to be deterred, I downloaded the ISOs for the first discs of CentOS 3.9 and 2.1.
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