[ltp] Problems installing Linux on a T43

[Thor Tall]

Thanks for the information.
Unfurtunatelly I cannot ask the customer to upgrade as
I am only supplying a small part of a big system and
they to not want to spend the money to upgrade to a
new version of linux. security is not an issue as the
software is running in a closed environment with no
external internet access.

I have tried to install a new kernel version 2.4.31
which doesn't help as I still only get 2.4 MB/s access
to the disk and I cannot change the DMA setting.

I have also looked at the CentOS 3 and it seem to be
build on later versions of Redhat so I cannot use it.

With respect to the earlier listing regarding the T43
and DMA then I have read them and although I enable
the defines as described in the postings I doesn't
seem to help with a 2.4.31 kernel.

I would be greateful for anyother ideas.

Thanks,
Thor.



--- honey@gneek.com wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Thor Tall wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed a redhat 7.3 on my new T43 and I
> am
> > having problems with the speed of the HD as it
> does
> > not support DMA. Using lspci I can see that the
> > chipset is not supported by the kernel. Does any
> of
> > you know if any of the newer 2.4 kernels support
> the
> > chipsets? Unfortunately I cannot use the 2.6
> kernels
> > due to customer requirements.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > Thor.
> 
> Thor,
> 
> I can't give a direct chipset answer, but I'd advise
> very strongly
> you don't ship anything to a customer with Red Hat
> 7.3 on - it's been
> totally unsupported for a long time, even by the
> Fedora Legacy team,
> and will have a mountain of unfixed security alerts,
> as well as being
> impossible to maintain in terms of updated drivers
> etc., as you're
> seeing.  Similarly with Red Hat 9, and even Fedora
> Core 1, which was
> 2.4 also.
> 
> I'd suggest strongly you either install Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux
> (RHEL) 3 (probably WS edition) if the customer has
> money and wants to
> pay commercially for support, or if not, one of the
> legitimate RHEL3
> rebuild projects: in particular I'd recommend
> CentOS.  CentOS3 comes
> with a 2.4 kernel, is free, and community suport,
> security updates
> etc. are likely to last for the next 5 years or so.
> 
> Note that RHEL4/CentOS4 come with the 2.6 kernel, so
> it sounds like
> you don't want them, but version 3 of each, unlike
> 7.3, are
> guaranteed support for 7 years.
> 
> http://www.centos.org
> 
> Support on irc.freenode.net:
> #rhel
> #centos
> 
> Honey
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