[CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups

[Boris Epstein]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> Boris Epstein wrote:
>> Hello listmates,
>>
>> I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD).
>> So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on
>> this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off
>> hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal
>> exception. OK, no problem - thinking that maybe  something was wrong
>> with that machine I decided to try it on a different one, a P-3 with
>> 384 MB or RAM. Same thing happened.
>>
>> So here's my question: has anybody successfully installed CentOS 5.5
>> on a 32-bit machine (i386) using individual CD's as their installation
>> media?
>>
> How much memory on the system? You *might* want to check the BIOS for some
> weird setting - like the ones I had for OS2 installs....
>
>         mark
>

Mark,

Thanks for replying. Like I said, there have so far been two systems,
one with 384 MB RAM and one with 1.25 GB of RAM. Both get what appears
to be the same (or similar) exception.

Boris.