[CentOS-devel] Re: CentOS-5 on i586

Wed Apr 9 00:21:53 UTC 2008
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

John Summerfield wrote:
>> yes, its the perfect fit.
> 
> Did you read the specs?
> http://laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml

very briefly

> CentOS5 in 256 Mbytes? 1 Gbyte "disk?"

It *can* be done, will need a few mod's to the package set though. And 
some of the dep tree's in CentOS for stuff like X are quite long. 
Something might need to be done about those as well.

The default install is going to struggle with that quite a bit. 
Specially the disk size.

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