Does anybody have a better picture of what this 'line' is? I.E. Intel 200, 300, 350? AMD 300, 450? Would this be Pentium vs. Pentium II? Perhaps the K6-2 series on the AMD side?
I have not done too much testing with CentOS-3 but for CentOS-2, the official line is i686 or better. i686 Is anything from Pentium Pro and up (PII, PIII, P4)
It will not install on other CPU's but that does not necessarily mean it will not run. I build i386 rpms for glibc, openssl, kernel etc so I have successfully installed on a P4 and then put the disk into an AMD K6 (which is equiv. to i586). Newer AMD is prob. OK because they are i686 compatible.
You probably won't be able to do SMP on anything but i686.
I would assume that CentOS-3 is more or less the same.
It is possible to remove the strict requirements in anaconda so you can install onto old hardware but it would require testing to make sure that the correct kernel and rpms are selected. Because they only target i686 they might have takes shortcuts and ignored older archs.
Perhaps if someone was keen they could do that for CentOS 3.4 but that is diverging from the CentOS idea of removing only the trademarks.
John.
Just trying to get a better idea so I don't get any surprises. I do have one old Proliant 3000 with a 300 processor hanging around and doing a fine job of what it is used for. One would never know it is not a latest greatest 8 processor xeon server for what it does. :) It simply needs to be reliable and it is VERY reliable.
Best,
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