Download Red hat 7.2? I cannot find a valid, fast link anywhere

[drag]

Originally posted by: Mellman

Originally posted by: drag
If you didn't care you wouldn't reply.

It's very obvious that you care quite a bit on what I have to say for some bizzare reason.

QFT! sometimes one should read their own post 🙂

well I never said I cared or not cared what you said one way or another.

All I saw was people trying to be honest with you and warning you to steer clear from RH7.2 if at all possible and to either chew this vendor out for being morons or run screaming from this app if at all possible (which is the absolute intellegently way to deal with this problem. Requiring redhat 7.2 IS a serious problem and I have no trouble chewing out a guy or company I have to pay 10,000 dollars to when obviously they have little understanding about how to do things properly..)

Also I told you just to copy and paste the name of the file into google and you get about 1700+ results, some of which undoubtably still work.

And then, although people have carried it on to far, all they got in return was abuse. You could of just ignored them.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Let it go drag, he's got his cds and the thread can die.

99% of all US government networks have already been owned already. One more RH 7.2 install won't change that. 🙂

And yes, I found the link I sent him (PMed him so no one else made it slow so this thread could be concluded) was found with the power of google. 😉

 

[Netopia]

This is, in many respects, a rather silly thread with things going in all sorts of directions.

I do have one question for the OP though. Like many, you seem to have forgotten that there still exists a world outside the internet. Did it never occur to you to simply call Red Hat and explain the situation and ask them to overnight some 7.2 CDs to you? Even if they charged you $100, that's peanuts for a $100,000+ project.

Joe

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: Mellman

lol obviously none of you guys have ever worked in the gov't contracting world... welcome to government contracting!

Nope, never government contracting, only government IT administration.

But this box we cannot use the free VM ware on - because this same company requires 16gb of ram for their application.

Just thought I would point out that Redhat 7.2 does not have 64-bit install ISO which will be needed to support greater than 4GB of RAM. But you're such an expert, I'm sure you already knew that.

You guys do realize that there are still windows 95 boxes out there in the computing world don't you? lots of legacy systems, that people are too afraid to upgrade - or won't upgrade because it works how it is...

Up until last year, we actually had a box running on MS-DOS that had been out since before Windows existed. But this box was not connected to a network.

wow...the ignorance of some people on these forums is astounding.

lol, yes it is.

To everyone else, sorry for resurrecting this thread... I've been on holiday.

 

[Nothinman]

Just thought I would point out that Redhat 7.2 does not have 64-bit install ISO which will be needed to support greater than 4GB of RAM. But you're such an expert, I'm sure you already knew that.

Well you could use PAE to let the OS access all of that memory, not sure how well a kernel that old will cope with it though. And each process will still be limited to 3G since they're 32-bit.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Just thought I would point out that Redhat 7.2 does not have 64-bit install ISO which will be needed to support greater than 4GB of RAM. But you're such an expert, I'm sure you already knew that.

Well you could use PAE to let the OS access all of that memory, not sure how well a kernel that old will cope with it though. And each process will still be limited to 3G since they're 32-bit.

Redhat 7.2 uses a 2.4 kernel and I *think* you have to have a 2.6 kernel for PAE support. Edit: ok I guess 2.4 does support PAE as a compile time option. IF PAE is enable at compile time, then that compiled kernel will not boot on PAE hardware (according to here anyway) so I'm guessing Redhat's kernel is not compiled for PAE.

 

[Nothinman]

Redhat 7.2 uses a 2.4 kernel and I *think* you have to have a 2.6 kernel for PAE support.

No, I just checked and 2.4 has PAE support. It says it'll do up to 64G, but I doubt it'll actually boot on a machine with that much memory.

Edit: ok I guess 2.4 does support PAE as a compile time option. IF PAE is enable at compile time, then that compiled kernel will not boot on PAE hardware (according to here anyway) so I'm guessing Redhat's kernel is not compiled for PAE.

AFAIK everything since the Pentium Pro supports PAE so there wouldn't be a problem enabling it, but I believe that RH shipped several kernels with things like SMP, HIGHMEM, HIGHMEM64, etc toggled so you could choose what you needed without recompiling.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Just thought I would point out that Redhat 7.2 does not have 64-bit install ISO which will be needed to support greater than 4GB of RAM. But you're such an expert, I'm sure you already knew that.

Well you could use PAE to let the OS access all of that memory, not sure how well a kernel that old will cope with it though. And each process will still be limited to 3G since they're 32-bit.

So the application would have to work at least in a 6 way cluster. Sounds like a completely retarded thing to do on a single machine. Even assuming there's a database in there, it's still pretty silly-seeming to run something that requires 16Gb on a 32 bit machine.

The only thing I can think of is that they use a fork'ing database like postgres and just hammer it hard with a large number of concurrent connections. But really, who ever heard of a java server application that took up that much less memory than the database it was using? 😛

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Redhat 7.2 uses a 2.4 kernel and I *think* you have to have a 2.6 kernel for PAE support.

No, I just checked and 2.4 has PAE support. It says it'll do up to 64G, but I doubt it'll actually boot on a machine with that much memory.

Edit: ok I guess 2.4 does support PAE as a compile time option. IF PAE is enable at compile time, then that compiled kernel will not boot on PAE hardware (according to here anyway) so I'm guessing Redhat's kernel is not compiled for PAE.

AFAIK everything since the Pentium Pro supports PAE so there wouldn't be a problem enabling it, but I believe that RH shipped several kernels with things like SMP, HIGHMEM, HIGHMEM64, etc toggled so you could choose what you needed without recompiling.

Yeah, I probably don't know what I'm talking about :brokenheart: