Fedora Core 4 Repo or Install ISOs

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:32:17 -0500
Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I just subscribed to fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com and tried sending
> this there, but it bounced back saying the mailbox had been
> disabled.   So now I'm trying here.
> 
> I have started a new job in a lab supporting research scientists, and
> one of the compute clusters they are using is a product that uses
> FC4.   And unfortunately it is more-or-less hardcoded to FC4 (was
> sold as an appliance) so I can't really upgrade it to something more
> recent and useful.
> 
> In general it is fine except when I want to add little things to help
> monitor the environment.
> 
> I see the Fedora Legacy project is sort of defunct from the looks of
> it, and was wondering whether there are any FC4 repos out there or
> some place to download the ISOs.

Old releases can be downloaded from
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/

But you really don't want to use them unless absolutely necessary.
You're a bit out of luck, since there's no RHEL release that is near
FC4. IIRC RHEL4 is pretty close to FC3, whereas RHEL5 is close to F8.

I'd try first googling if the product can be made to work on RHEL (or
one of its clones such as CentOS or Scientific Linux), and/or trying to
install it yourself on a newer distro.

Replacing /etc/redhat-release with the FC4 version might just do the
trick...
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org