Jimmy Bradley spake the following on 3/14/2007 8:25 PM:
I installed Cent OS 5 beta on an old machine with no trouble. Themachine has an old slot 1 motherboard with an AMD 500 mghrtz processor, 343mb of ram. The video card is an old trident 3D blade AGP card. The card has only either 16 or 32mb of ram, but it's able to put out 1024X768 resolution, true color 24bit. The hard drive is an 80gig. The ethernet card is a 3com, and the sound card is a sound blaster 16bit. The install went without any problems, but it did take about 2.5 hours to complete. I will say this though, the install looked a lot like a Fedora core install. Cent OS 4 reminded me of a red Hat 9 install, OS 5 reminds me of a Fedora install. To me it looks a lot like core 6.
Since it is derived from core 6, that is to be expected.
So far the machine has been running smoothly. I haven't had anyproblems so far. Who knows, that may change as the machine continues to run. That's all I have to say about it right now, unless something goes wrong. Bye Jim