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Tgilyard
2006-12-29, 02:40 PM CST
redhat 6.1 Bringing up eth0 interface: Delaying eth0 initialization: FAILED
need all the help i can get.
step by step if possible. :confused:
ppesci
2006-12-29, 03:13 PM CST
If you are new in Linux, I suggest you go to:

Administration -> Network

and check how your interface card are configured.

HTH

Pietro Pesci Feltri
Tgilyard
2006-12-29, 03:24 PM CST
still has the same failure. I was told that i should upgrade to 6.2 where can i download from
ppesci
2006-12-29, 03:38 PM CST
RedHat is a really old distribution, I suggest if you have at least 256 MB RAM memory, download FC 6 at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Download

HTH

Pietro Pesci Feltri
paul matthijsse
2006-12-29, 03:38 PM CST
1. Type in a terminal "ifconfig" and see what that says about your eth0
2. Consider upgrading to a recent version of Fedora Core (the community successor to RedHat 5/6), because RedHat 6 is really very old...
Tgilyard
2006-12-29, 08:45 PM CST
This is no eht0 shown. The only thing there is lo
ppesci
2006-12-29, 08:51 PM CST
Better is to install FC 6, may be your harware can't be configured properly with so old distribution.

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Tgilyard
2006-12-29, 09:14 PM CST
it is an old gateway 2000 solo 2100 1.3gb hd. I was looking for something to training on until i get the knowledge to move up.
paul matthijsse
2006-12-30, 03:00 AM CST
This is no eht0 shown. The only thing there is loThat means you don't have an ethernet connection. Your network interface card may be broken, or Red Hat 6 does not recognize it. A year ago I tried to install Red Hat 5.2 on a not so old machine, and that gave similar problems: no hard disk found etc. Newer versions work with more hardware.

Perhaps you can download a live CD version of FC6.

Cheers, Paul.