Running Red Hat Linux 5.0 (Hurricane, 1997) on a Virtual Machine

I have this really nasty sinus infection/cold, so I don't have much to do today... with that said, I took the day to play around with my old Linux CDs. I've already posted about getting Red Hat Linux 4.2 (Biltmore, 1997) running on a Virtual Machine. I have also gotten Red Hat Linux 5.0 (Hurricane, 1997), Red Hat Linux 6.1 (Cartman, 1999) and Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Enigma, 2001).

Red Hat Linux 5.0 (Hurricane, 1997) - Kernel 2.0.31 - Hurricane

The swap space limitation is hilarious! 128 Mb total, I actually picked 64Mb, because even 128Mb complained it was too much.

MetroX X Server was a commercial version of the X Server that for a while Red Hat would bundle its OS with... Setting up X used to be such a pain in the butt, even to get it working on my virtual environment was tough.

MetroX X based configuration tool was kinda of nice.

514 Mb was the complete install with 'Everything' selected.

One of my favorite games ever xbill :-) Maybe it should have been called: Kill Bill :-)

Another instance of commercial software packaged with Red Hat, Real Player. Note in the background, I tried to start up 'The Gimp' but it cored dumped on me :-)

Red Hat Linux 5.0 version info