"Stephen John Smoogen" smooge@gmail.com wrote:

On 4/4/07, Grzesiek grz3chu@gmail.com wrote:

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System requirements for CentOS 5 minimal installation (console and ssh) are....128 MB ram, 256...? I can't find this information in rhel5 installation manual.

A text based install is possible at 256 MB. A GUI based install needs 512MB (but 1024MB is recommended by Upstream OS Provider).

384MB is sufficient for graphical install of the CentOS 5 beta (4.92):

[root@fold ~]# uname -a Linux fold.local.davenjudy.org 2.6.18-1.2747.el5 #1 SMP Mon Dec 11 21:17:21 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@fold ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.92 (Beta) [root@fold ~]# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 384920 kB MemFree: 11200 kB Buffers: 116204 kB Cached: 108832 kB SwapCached: 9804 kB Active: 227620 kB Inactive: 87620 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 384920 kB LowFree: 11200 kB SwapTotal: 3116492 kB SwapFree: 3072824 kB Dirty: 36 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 86816 kB Mapped: 45764 kB Slab: 39908 kB PageTables: 4024 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 3308952 kB Committed_AS: 567092 kB VmallocTotal: 638968 kB VmallocUsed: 8088 kB VmallocChunk: 629748 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB

This is my "crash and burn" test box so it only gets minimal usage other than sequentially making sure the CentOS 5 applications work as expected.

Cheers, Dave