--On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:27 AM -0500 Salim Shaw salimshaw@fastmail.com wrote:

Dude, purchase a new computer. Almost all modern OSes stopped supporting 32bit architectures.

Even a Raspberry Pi would be superior! Were I so budget-constrained, I'd just buy one of those. (Reserve CentOS for use with bigger and newer iron.)

I regularly see posts from people with machines a few years old who have to custom-spin drivers for their aging video, network, and RAID cards.

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 6:31 AM Mauricio Tavares raubvogel@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 9:18 AM Ger van Dijck ger.vandijck@edpnet.be wrote:

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Hi all ,

I have a very old PC ( Acer2000) 32 Bits. On this machine I am running

(Do

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not laugh) SCO Unix in an antique version : So Centos6 probes with the bootloader on this OS and other OS s.

Is there a way to opgrade Centos 6 to Centos 7 in the 32 Bits

architecture

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  As far as I know, you cannot upgrade as you would with ubuntu

but have to do a full install. 32 bit images for centos 7 are found at http://isoredirect.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/

I googled it, and it appears an Acer 2000 is a Pentium-M 1.6 Ghz with 512MB to 2GB max ram. I would stick with whatever is working on it, or put it out of its misery.

My suggestion would be a significantly newer system that supports virtualization, and run your SCO and whatever in VMs rather than trying to multi-boot.

"John Pierce" jhn.pierce@gmail.com wrote:

I googled it, and it appears an Acer 2000 is a Pentium-M 1.6 Ghz with 512MB to 2GB max ram.

With that kind of hardware, I'd try Debian, and if that doesn't work, one of the distributions designed specifically for old hardware (perhaps Bodhi, otherwise SliTaz).

-> With Debian, the biggest difference is update (if you are using the command-line).

Another big difference is the location and format of the networking files - /etc/network/interfaces instead of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg*. ________________________________ From: CentOS centos-bounces@centos.org on behalf of MAILIST mailist@toolz.com Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:39 AM To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [CentOS] Upgrade Centos 6 (32 Bits) to Centos 7 (32 Bits)

I have a very old PC ( Acer2000) 32 Bits. On this machine I am running (Do not laugh) SCO Unix in an antique version : So Centos6 probes with the bootloader on this OS and other OS s.

There is a group that voluntarily maintains a 32-bit CentOS 7. I installed that on an old Dell Celeron desktop. The performance was so poor, it was unusable. Then, I tried the lubuntu distro, and that has been running smoothly since July. It is also well-maintained, as there are regular updates. Lubuntu is a derivitive of Ubuntu, which is a derivative of Debian. With Debian, the biggest difference is update (if you are using the command- line).

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