[WBEL-users] Problems with WBEL 4 in an older system

[pedro cañadilla]

Hi Johnny,

Many thanks for your help. 
I'm going to left WBEL 3 just because it is working properly and fine,
and surely I will have updates till 2008.

Best regards, and thanks a lot for your help, time & patience.
P.C.


On 5/16/05, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 10:37 +0200, pedro cañadilla wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a problem installing WBEL 4 in an old desktop PC.
> > The desktop is a Pentium 166 MMX with 192 MB of RAM.
> > I boot from CD, the kernel is loaded, then initrd reboots the computer.
> > I tried linux text, linux noprobe, etc with no results.
> > It's a rare thing, just because other RedHat CDs works properly.
> >
> > I've done the MD5 checksum from the downloaded files, checked the Cds,
> > etc, and everything is allright.
> >
> > Could you help me, please?
> >
> 
> RHEL 4 (and WBEL 4) do not work on an i586 kernel.  Machines have to
> have at least a i686 processor to work with those distros.  That is
> Pentium Pro and above only. A pentium MMX will not work with those
> kernels.
> 
> CentOS 4 has i586 support and should install on that machine.
> 
> See these other posts:
> 
> http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-devel/2005-April/001181.html
> (follow that whole thread)
> 
> --
> Johnny Hughes
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