[CentOS] Running CentOS on very old hardware
John Newbigin
jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au
Thu May 5 02:04:03 UTC 2005
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>
> Either put more memory, or go with some older distribution. CentOS 3.x
> might run on it, not sure what are memory requirements for it. RHEL 2.x
> would run even better.
If you want RHEL 2 then you could use CentOS-2. CentOS-2 will not
install on this hardware though. What you can do is swap the hard disk
into an i686 machine and install. Then install the i386 kernel, glibc &
openssl and then swap the disk back into the older CPU box.
Using it as a web server should be OK. X will struggle.
John.
>
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John Newbigin
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Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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