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On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:38:47PM -0500, User Lists wrote:

Hi all,

Is it possible to install (and run) CentOS-3 with only 160 MB of RAM?? Have I put special params to boot it??

Thank you very much

It will repends on what you are going to do with that machine.

I'll be installing (tomorrow) a CentOS 4.1 machine with 64MB RAM. It will be a minor firewall/router machine for a small office (10 computers behind it), without anything fancy on it. And, of course, no X Environment.

You can actually run CentOS with even less RAM. 32MB would be the bare minimum, if you ask me. It only depends on what you are running on that machine.

If you are planing on having a workstation (Gnome, KDE etc), then you should not even think of starting without 256MB RAM. If you are going for a low weight WM (IceWM, Blackbox etc), then it might work with 128MB or 160MB.

Unless you have some deep Linux experience (5y+, minimum), I don't recomend trying any creative tricks, since know the memory footprint of each component can be tricky, specially since those will change depending on the version, or even interation with other components.

As a rule of thumb:

Barebones network device (kernel + bash + sshd): 64MB min Barebones network server (kernel + dhcp + sshd + small stuff): 128MB min Barebones workstation: 256MB min

By barebones I mean you will have to do a lot of micro-customization to make sure there is nothing running that isn't really needed. Not to mention some heavy footwork regarding partition positioning on the disk, to reduce seek times, something not easy to do on CentOS (diskdruid(?) has a mind of its own).

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