[ale] Fedora 6 install media

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 17:10 -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> It's libraries that prevent me from intalling - it's Apani Contivity
> VPN, provided by a src RPM, and the compile fails
> in F8.  Since I don't want to spend too much time for a work tool, and
> I have a spare machine, I'll load FC6 on the spare
> and run it there.  I've got a sufficiently good KVM switch for the 2
> boxen, so it's not a big issue.

	Really...  And they support RHEL 5 and do not support CentOS 5?  That
makes no bloody sense.  They're the same thing on that level.  Have you
tried compiling on CentOS 5?  What errors did you get there.  I have no
surprise it wouldn't work with F8, that's a lot of changes since FC6.
But CentOS 5 == RHEL 5 ~= FC6 and that SHOULD work.

	BTW...  If you want it all one one box, I've got boxes running F8 on
the hard iron and running OpenVZ virtual machines, including FC5, FC6,
F7, F8, Ubuntu, CentOS/RHEL 4.5, CentOS/RHEL 4.6, CentOS/RHEL 5.0,
CentOS/RHEL 5.1, all nice and happy and running side by side like a
charm on common iron (and a common kernel) and none of the overhead of a
full virtual machine, ala VMware, VirtualBox, or XEN.

	Mike

> 2008/1/20 Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>:
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 23:42 -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > > On Jan 19, 2008 11:00 PM, James P. Kinney III
> > > <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> > > > Look at CentOS 5 as it has much in common with Fedora 5/6.
> >
> > > Its gotta be one of the linux distros supported by the utility -
> > > Fedora, RedHat Enterprise, or Suse are all
> > > that the program is spec'd for.
> >
> >         If it's something like Scalix where they actually check the distro and
> > refuse to unpack if it's not one of the officially sanctioned ones, it's
> > trivial to bypass.  All you have to do is update /etc/redhat-release to
> > the correct string for RHEL-5 and install your package.  Then change it
> > back.
> >
> > > I've got FC6 isos just finished downloading, so thanks again toall for the help.
> >
> >         CentOS 5 maps to RHEL 5 and is based on Fedora Core 6.  Fedora Core 6
> > is EOL and no longer supported.  CentOS 5 will be supported for years.
> > If the package supports RHEL 5, it can be made to install on CentOS 5.
> >
> >         Mike
> >
> >
> > > > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 14:20 -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > > > > Does anyone know of a source for Fedora (Core?) 6 installation images?
> > > > >  I have a work-required piece of software that
> > > > > is supported only up to 6, and I upgraded my home machine to 8, so I
> > > > > need to resurrect an older machine to 6 so
> > > > > I can use the SW.
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA,
> > > > >
> > > > >
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