Re: [Centos] Re: low end systems

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:28:05 -0800 (PST), Rick Graves gravesricharde@yahoo.com >

I had yum problems on Pentium I's with 72 megs of memory -- yum would crash a lot. (This was running cAos 1, not CentOS.)

I am surprised that 64 megs is working well for you.

I have run FC1/2/3 on systems like this with nothing but text mode installed (e.g. no KDE, no GNOME, no X). I too ran into problems with yum, but was able to reduce them by running

yum check-update

to find packages that need updating and then doing a

yum install <singlepackage>

for each of the packages returned by the check-update. I'm not sure if that really makes sense and was helping or if it was just a concidence that yum ran faster on those packages.

Greg