graham1949 wrote:

> Hi All
> I am new to Linux and trying to install REd Hat Linux 3 & Ferora as
> from the bible by Christopher Negus
> the Istallation sftware does not find my hard drive and request a
> driver.
> The hard drive is Western Dig Corp WD2500JD, I have downloaded the
> driver from their site and attempted to use the XP version as my Dell
> is XP, to no avail.
> System Dell 8400 running XP, Hard drive partioned to accomodate Linux.
> Any helpwould be greatly appreciated
> Graham


Hello,

What an OOOOOOOOPS! RH 3 is really out of date since last realease was RH 7
some years ago and the RH project became RHEnterpriseLinux (payware) and
Fedora (ex Fedora Core).

I'd recommend you to take a look at distrowatch .com and get any newest
distro such as MDV2008.1, Debian 4.0r3, OpenSuSE 11.0.

Fedora 9 is not good for noobs and X/K/Ubuntu sucks. BSD is a bit
complicated but you can give them a try too.

For older PI/PII combos with not much RAM, a light distro such as Damn Small
Linux can do the job. Any combo better than a CeleronII with more than 256
MB RAM can easily run any modern distro under the Gnome desktop or KDE with
no gimmick.

Ciao +

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, F8BOE wrote:

> graham1949 wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>> I am new to Linux and trying to install REd Hat Linux 3 & Ferora as
>> from the bible by Christopher Negus
>> the Istallation sftware does not find my hard drive and request a
>> driver.
>> The hard drive is Western Dig Corp WD2500JD, I have downloaded the
>> driver from their site and attempted to use the XP version as my Dell
>> is XP, to no avail.
>> System Dell 8400 running XP, Hard drive partioned to accomodate Linux.
>> Any helpwould be greatly appreciated
>> Graham
>
>
> Hello,
>
> What an OOOOOOOOPS! RH 3 is really out of date since last realease was RH 7
> some years ago and the RH project became RHEnterpriseLinux (payware) and
> Fedora (ex Fedora Core).

Please ignore this misleading and wrong information.
Wrong: the last release of Red Hat before the "Enterprise" series was Red
Hat 9 (not 7) and misleading because the original poster was probably
referring to Red Hat Enterprise v.3 -- which is still supported and
receives updates.

Red Hat continues to update the kernel on RHEL 3, so support of newer
hardware continues to expand. It does not have the same level of support
of newer hardware that the newer releases have, but it should not be
dismissed out of hand. Nevertheless, unless you have a specific reason to
use RHEL3 (eg. some software that is only supported under RHEL3), I would
not recommend it.

Whoever wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, F8BOE wrote:
>
>> graham1949 wrote:
....
>> Hello,
>>
>> What an OOOOOOOOPS! RH 3 is really out of date since last realease was
>> RH 7
>> some years ago and the RH project became RHEnterpriseLinux (payware) and
>> Fedora (ex Fedora Core).
>
> Please ignore this misleading and wrong information.
> Wrong: the last release of Red Hat before the "Enterprise" series was
> Red Hat 9 (not 7) and misleading because the original poster was
> probably referring to Red Hat Enterprise v.3 -- which is still supported
> and receives updates.

Correcting your wrong information for just a second. While it is
very true that Red Hat does say (now) that RHELAS 3
was their first "enterprise" product, that's really NOT true,
for Red Hat did deliver RHAS 2.1 which WAS their first
enterprise product (which they now deny) and it WAS indeed
a Red Hat 7 "based" distribution.