On Feb 8, 2008 9:02 AM, Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org wrote:
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 05:47:58PM +0100, Matias Surdi wrote:
Is possible to install Centos 5 on a 586 CPU? (cpu_type = 5)
No. I think there was some interest in making this happen at some point:
http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/CentOS5PentiumSupport
However I'm not sure that it will end up happening:
Pardon me, but you CAN install CentOS 5.1 on any x86 CPU. If your CPU is a valid 64-bit CPU, you can install either the i386 version (32-bit) or the x86_64 version. You may not get full support of specific CPU instructions that are available ONLY on your particular CPU, but the right one will run.
I had 586 CPUs on two different machines at work way back when 5.0 came out, and the x86_64 installation ran just fine on both.
mhr