Les Mikesell wrote:
Equally relevant is whether 5.x is a necessity on such hardware. If I had any left I'd probably prefer to run the more lightweight 2.4 kernel in CentOS 3.x at least until the end of its supported life.
That is true, essentially what Johnny said as well in his email earlier in this thread.
The extra memory requirements for the yum based installer itself have made it hard to use anything except nfs installs on machines with < 256 megs of ram.