Linked to at yoga6d.org/economy.htm, which has some additional information about the rh8.ova file which this readme.txt concerns! Hi! Do you want to go to 2006, April 10, 10 o'clock in the morning and run Red Hat 8.0 with a fresh Java in its simplistic Konqueror, totally oriented towards http:// which is the best of the free internet, -- and do other such niceties, including compiling new programs? Alright! DO TAKE RESPONSBILITY FOR THINKING ABOUT SECURITY AND SETTINGS ESP WHEN YOU HAVE NETWORK ACTIVATED AND DO SUCH THINGS. THERE ARE TONS OF LOOPHOLES AND WILL ALWAYS BE IN COMPLICATED SOFTWARE STRUCTURES LIKE THESE. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU DO, and you'll be fine. The rh8.ova file which this readme.txt concers can be imported into any new Virtualbox when you start up Virtualbox and select Import Appliance. Virtualbox is loved by many for what it rescues of opportunities to all those who bother to set it up -- and it is, in fact, amazingly easy to set up. It allows you to run classical java 1.1 applets straight away at the net using the Konqueror. You'd like to have a bit faster PC than the slowest cheapest laptops, though. You log in, then, using the following information, and please scan through this quickly made readme for this classical product which only consists of files which once were totally available all over the place, for free, for that is their license: Username for RH8, the free GNU GPL open source licensed Red Hat 8.0 which, after this version, became the Fedora, while Red Hat Linux, after version 8.0, became commercialised, is this: root Password: helloyou One user is defined: patricia Password: helloyou This is a product from some time after year 2000 from Red Hat, Inc, and there are tons of acknowlegdements inside and of course all is entirely untouched and intact of this FREE Linux version, with CD's provided in together with a book on Linux I bought in a bookstore once. To start the graphical platform, type startx right after you have logged in. The command shutdown -h now suffices to shut it down cleanly. It is a good idea not to change Display settings in RH8 unless you are prepared each time to go into cd /etc/X11/ in text mode and type cp XF86Config.backup1 XF86Config there. Next time you start startx it will be the normal again (I have prepared XF86Config.backup1, .backup2, and .backup3 so that you have extra backups of the standard that does work.) If you press CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE you can force the graphics activation to stop (rather equal to selecting "Log off" at the menu), also when the graphics doesn't work out rightly. For RH8 doesn't autorecover from a wrong display settings and its controllers are limited. RH8 also doesn't recover if you fill up the disk completely. It is here initialised to 40GB but don't go anywhere near using that much (there's a System Monitor that tells how much is there). When you use RH8 direct on a physical PC: An advantage of being in the text mode is that you get a little extra control of something, especially when you run the RH8 on a real classic physical PC, and you plug in a classical pendisk (FAT16 type). If you plug something into the USB drive that the physical PC detects, it will tell this in the text mode -- but in the graphical mode it is (unlike Centos 5.5) quiet -- and you can do e.g. mount /dev/sda1 /a and the /a /b /c as well as /backup1 to /backup9 are pre-readied by me for you. If you use a physical PC, remember: RH8 is only USB 1.0 standard, so read to USB, but only write to a USB pendisk which is as old as it or which you are willing to completely mess up ;). Reading new pendisks is possible but writing to new pendisks from a too-old machine isn't possible. However, of course, when run virtually, these things can be fixed to some extent -- this is something you have to work on. When you use any OS in VirtualBox or in other software that does such virtual PC running, how do you get files sent to, and received from, the surrounding OS? Answer in this readme.txt is that you should search on askubuntu.com or other places for a way to do it that fits the present situation, for these things do change -- from one version of a virtualisation software to the next, and from one virtualisation software package to the other. But what I do know is that you should be wary of doing gftp from an old os, because, quite simply, it may do something so ancient that the firewall of the server may temporarily block connection altogether. Do not risk it. The RH8 Gftp should not be used against modern servers out there on the net. However, ftp can be used if you have the PC connected to a router, and the surrounding OS, or another PC connected to the same router, sets up a simple ftp-server somehow. I haven't tested this at the moment with RH8 run virtually, but I have tested it with Firth run virtually (there is info about this somewhere in the firth-up.txt or connected text pages). In other words, one OS -- run virtual or not -- can, given that proper software is in place, and that network connection is enabled, send stuff to another, when one is set up as ftp and the other as an ftp-server, or the like (there's also something called http-server, and two machines running Ubuntu can use something like this command: python -m SimpleHTTPServer where the other use this address: http://server-ip:8000/on according to askubuntu). The other way most talked about when it comes to virtual PC file exchange in connection to VirtualBox is called Guest Additions. Search on this. The third way is by software which decodes the file on the harddisk which represents the harddisk of the virtual OS, and which can read off it, or write into it. No matter what, don't keep it long on any net connection, for security reasons. Use at your own responsibility. There is not Javascript to do many forms of login-sites with the included 1.0 Firefox. Other quirks: it may tell you that you have mail. That's just how it signals that the logging of whatever it is -- some messages from some programs I assume -- has been stored as 'mail' to the administrator of the platform. Do not activate screensaver when running as root. The Mozilla Firefox is really early but can handle plain text files like the yoga4d.org (which is set as bookmark) which tells you, if you really look into it and all its hints and hints within hints, how to upgrade it several steps WITHIN the RH8. Remember that the Konqueror browser, which is even more simplistic than the over-simple RH8, has unlimited Java Applet power (at least if you modify the .java.policy file as described at the minigj2.htm page linked to from yoga4d.org somewhere) so only use it for extremely trusted small applet pages. NOTE THAT THERE IS A BOOKMARK TO A NONEXISTING SUBPAGE (WE EXPERIMENTED WITH AN APPLET AT THE TIME WE MADE THIS). Use only rather small pages, not long text pages on Konqueror. The right-CTRL key will usually bring the mouse back to e.g. Ubuntu or whatever you use around, and right-CTRL-F will usually switch between the fullest screen mode and to a 'within-frame' mode. The RH8, as I call it, is however most stable when run in the root. Before the install process, I switched off Internet and typed at the command line, in Administrator mode: date --set=2006-04-10 date --set=10:00am In this way, the RH8 didn't get 'shocked' by too much time passed. Put it to e.g. 3:00pm same day if you want to install packages which are harmonious with this starting day. However as soon as I switched on network, the linux around switched many years into the future, and so some of the configurations, such as Konqueror w/applet viewing, might have got newer date. The present version of the Virtualbox doesn't seem to have option for modifying the emulated PC's internal clock, that's why I did it this way. To install the many packages eg at yoga4d.org into this free GNU GPL open source licensed Linux you should perhaps put the date to eg the next day. When you do modify date on your PC to fit such an emulation, do please make a note of modifying it back AS SOON as you're done with it, so as not to trigger a hundred questionmarks inside the programs of your newer Linux. Format: fits with Oracle Virtualbox of the standard type This is a 32-bit standard PC definitive package, laying out what the core IBM PC compatible standard with Vesa-compatible monitor size such as 1024*768 pixels, or 3"4 format, is all about, from around y2000. Java 1.6 with JDK is included, but earlier versions also exists on the machine. To use the Java 1.6, you can use the Konqueror browser, which however has no limits as to what it allows applets to do, so don't use it exceot on very trusted sites indeed. The RH8 cannot, like Centos 5.5 (which is available as iso's on yoga6d.org if you consult the firth-up.txt linked to at the EcoNomy column there), run SDL 1.2 and that means that there are things (such as the y6.zip platform) it cannot do. There are many other things it can do, fine-read yoga4d.org for hints. There are still more hints if you type in a command hinted at at that page after enabling the classical applet at that page. These hints contains bundles of RH8-compatible software of all kinds, including mp3-extension for xmms player and more javascript for early Mozilla and such. Installation hints for Virtualbox in Ubuntu to get it REALLY well done!: First install newest Ubuntu. Then install all the extras. Open, in Mozilla Firefox, http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m and click on mscorefonts and the newest .deb package for these fonts presently called something which completes with "..3.6_all.deb". Let the Ubuntu software center look at it, and keep Firefox running in the background while it does so. Install these fonts. Then open Terminal CTR-ALT-T and type sudo -i and answer with your password. Type wine and type in the suggestion that should then arise as to how to install wine. This will also open up for running 32-bit Linux programs in 64-bit Linux, as long as you also add the :i386 to get the particular extra libraries, eg SDL, in each case. Once wine is installed this way -- and this is MUCH better than installing Wine via the Ubuntu Software Center as it has been for several versions, due to the stop at the mscorefonts thing -- it is easier for many other applications of some size to get into Ubuntu. Reboot, then go to Terminal and do sudo -i, and type virtualbox and type in the suggestion installation command that comes up. Have fun! Aristo T. P.S. This Virtualbox PC wasn't one that was picked as 'Red Hat Linux' from the typelist, for that is too new, too advanced. Rather, an 'Unknown' O.S. type of 32-bit was selected; one could imagine trying something like this with the 'DOS' type of PC selected also. If you put in Firth DOS (a strongly modified and vastly expanded FreeDOS) first on a disk which is, say, 40-60 GB, and give 20 to (max) 31 GB to Firth, and 20-40 GB to RH8, following the yoga4d.org/download install instructions, you may be able to get the virtual disk which to get these two rather excellent side by side. The RH8 .iso's are divided into many 10 MB .dat bundles which you glue together with the ./doggy command in Linux, recently tested and found superb, in fact the source of this!). In such a platform a command like mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /c connects the /c folder to the C: in DOS, and you can two-way copy files between them. Check out also Centos 5.5, which is a furthering of the RH8 platform to more Javascript in the Firefox, and which can also run such as the y6.zip when properly set up. This is a great way to access http:// free internet always -- we must keep the emphasis on https:// away, as part of the general emphasis to protect unclutteredness, not overdone certification and control of the internet and its activities by a small group of dominant companies.