On 06/03/2011 05:10 AM, Cody Jackson wrote: > What's the status of the CentOS 5 for the i586 project? off the top of my head - its not been going anywhere. People have on and off expressed interest, but never really had the traction to keep up with it. > http://wiki.centos.org/Projects/CentOS5PentiumSupport That seems to be a good place to start the project off from > link above, I managed to compile an i586 kernel and deploy it on the > K6 machine, which is now running C5 happily behind me with about 76MB If you guys want, we can get the project going ( c5-i586 support ) and get it into a regular / more official channel. The 'challenges' are going to be : - Making sure the patchset is sane - Making sure that we can sync updates between the main centos repos and the i586 specific one. - Working out a mechanism that does not need us to reproduce the entire packageset from the main repo's into the i586 specific ones. - KB