Support for RH7.3 was a desirable rather than a requirement. I didn't
think that I could make support for an upsuppoted RedHat release a
requiremen. However streamline stated that these machines were compatible
with RH7.3
> > Inspired by the knowledge that I was not alone and doing
> > something completely inane I returned and tried to do an install of a CE
> > using the floppy as the boot device.
> >
> > It reached the end of the installation cycle and seems to believe
> > it is indeed an LCG2 CE. However it still has network problems - how it
> > managed to nfs mount the disk in order to read the profile and get hold of
> > the rpms, when the network is not working is beyond my comprehension!
>
> During the install you are using the floppy's compiled in e1000
> >
> > This is not a definitive answer - but I thought it was enough of a
> > step forward to report and perhaps someone else can shed light on what is
> > going on
>
> As long as you end up running the 2.4.20 kernel at the end of installation,
> either Redhat's latest or FLs greatest I would guess it would be okay.
>
> I think Mark just reported certainly the latter was okay.
I thought that Mark was saying the opposite ... did I mis-interpret what
he was saying?
All the best,
david
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