[CentOS] Running CentOS on very old hardware

John Newbigin

jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au
Thu May 5 02:04:03 UTC 2005


Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:


> 
> Either put more memory, or go with some older distribution.  CentOS 3.x 
> might run on it, not sure what are memory requirements for it.  RHEL 2.x 
> would run even better.
If you want RHEL 2 then you could use CentOS-2.  CentOS-2 will not 
install on this hardware though.  What you can do is swap the hard disk 
into an i686 machine and install.  Then install the i386 kernel, glibc & 
openssl and then swap the disk back into the older CPU box.

Using it as a web server should be OK.  X will struggle.

John.

> 


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John Newbigin
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Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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