Benjamin Franz wrote:

On 07/27/2010 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:

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Hello listmates,

I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So

I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal exception. OK, no problem - thinking that maybe something was wrong with that machine I decided to try it on a different one, a P-3 with 384 MB or RAM. Same thing happened. <snip>

of the CentOS tree). That worked fine for me. My first thought on a

machine that old would be either flaky memory or or a flaky CD drive. I <snip> Good thought. I had a *lot* of trouble with one older 32-bit system a few months ago - I could *not* get it to install from the DVD. I finally used my USB key, and that worked. Of course, for any other purposes, the drive worked fine.

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