Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install.
On 11/22/2013 9:35 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install.
its the GUI installer, try (at the grub boot: prompt), /*linux text */ then, choose the minimum packages, etc, and get a basic config. the text mode installer's disk utilities are ugly, sometimes its easiest to setup the disks ahead of time manually, then just tell the text installer to use your partitions as-is.
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On 23/11/13 00:35, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install.
CentOS is binary compatible to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so it shares the same minimum requirements.
http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/articles-red-hat-enterprise-l...
So assuming a machine that old is 32-bit;
* RAM: 512MB minimum / 1 GB/logical CPU recommended
* Disk: 1GB minimum / 5GB recommended
On 23.Nov.2013, at 06:51, Digimer wrote:
On 23/11/13 00:35, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install.
CentOS is binary compatible to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so it shares the same minimum requirements.
http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/articles-red-hat-enterprise-l...
Plus, what is not mentioned in this link, it needs PAE. The kernel will not boot on a machine without PAE capability.
On 23.Nov.2013, at 14:37, Markus Falb wrote:
On 23.Nov.2013, at 06:51, Digimer wrote:
On 23/11/13 00:35, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install.
CentOS is binary compatible to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so it shares the same minimum requirements.
http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/articles-red-hat-enterprise-l...
Plus, what is not mentioned in this link, it needs PAE. The kernel will not boot on a machine without PAE capability.
Mark wrote that it is booting, so his machine is fine in this regard. I should have read more carefully.
Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the availability of drivers.
Cheers,
Cliff
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Mark LaPierre marklapier@aol.com wrote:
Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
....unlikely.. not ...likely...
Cheers,
Cliff
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthenet@gmail.comwrote:
Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the availability of drivers.
Cheers,
Cliff
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Mark LaPierre marklapier@aol.com wrote:
Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 23.Nov.2013, at 06:51, Cliff Pratt wrote:
Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the availability of drivers.
We have no second sight, do we? However, I would say that if the CPU can do PAE and there is enough RAM it is very likely indeed that CentOS 6.4 will work. Driver availability with Linux and especially with distributions like RHEL or CentOS is more an issue with *new* hardware.
On 11/23/2013 07:35 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install.
Hi Mark,
I recently installed CentOS 6.4 on a 386 system with 512kb of memory. I had to use a kickstart file to achieve this as the text installer does not give you any opportunity to partition the disk to your specification.
Regards
ChrisG
On 23.Nov.2013, at 08:41, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
On 11/23/2013 07:35 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install.
Hi Mark,
I recently installed CentOS 6.4 on a 386 system with 512kb of memory. I had to use a kickstart file to achieve this as the text installer does not give you any opportunity to partition the disk to your specification.
Another possible way could be with the live cd, have a look at the following links, especially the 2nd http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-May/019739.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-July/115367.html
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 09:41:49AM +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
On 11/23/2013 07:35 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install.
Hi Mark,
I recently installed CentOS 6.4 on a 386 system with 512kb of memory. I had to use a kickstart file to achieve this as the text installer does not give you any opportunity to partition the disk to your specification.
I doubt it was an actual 80386. For some years the minimum CPU requirement has been i686, which was Pentium Pro or greater. More recently the additional requirement of a CPU with PAE capabilities. I rather doubt that a processor that ran RH9 (a decade or more ago) would have PAE, though I have been wrong before (once or twice! :) :) )
Fred
On 11/23/2013 07:40 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
I doubt it was an actual 80386. For some years the minimum CPU requirement has been i686, which was Pentium Pro or greater. More recently the additional requirement of a CPU with PAE capabilities. I rather doubt that a processor that ran RH9 (a decade or more ago) would have PAE, though I have been wrong before (once or twice! :) :)
I've got a machine that started life running RH7.3, was migrated to CentOS3 and is still running it (though hopefully not much longer - I am retiring the machine before it decides that a decade plus of service is long enough and dies on its own). The motherboard BIOS date is 05/15/2003 and the dual CPUs are 3Ghz Xeons with hyperthreading and, yes, PAE.
That isn't even the oldest running system here. That honor goes to a system currently with CentOS5, a motherboard BIOS date of 03/29/2000, 384 MBytes of memory, running a Celeron 500 MHz CPU with PAE (also facing retirement in the near future).
:)
On 11/23/2013 12:35 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to do the install.
I suppose that I should have asked how much RAM is required to get the Minimal Install CD to work?
I booted up the Live CD and did the install from there. The only problem seemed to be with installing the boot loader. The Live CD will not let me boot into rescue mode, and the Minimal Install CD kicks me out with a message that says there is not enough RAM to install CentOS on this machine. That seems strange seeing that it can boot up the Live CD and do the install from there. You would think that having the Live CD system up and running would suck up quite a bit of RAM but still it's happy to run the install.
I think I could save the install if I could build an new initramfs image and then install the boot loader along the lines of: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CreateNewInitrd
where it says:
Boot in Rescue Mode
Boot from a CentOS installation disc (for example, CD #1 or DVD).
Type "linux rescue" at the "boot:" prompt. Mount all filesystems in read-write mode.
The only CD images I can find for CentOS are the Live CD and Minimal Install CD neither of which allows me to boot into a rescue session. Maybe I could use a CentOS 5 boot disk? Maybe they have a CD image that will boot into rescue mode.
Anyway, how much RAM does it take to satisfy the Minimal Install CD?
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