[CentOS] CentOS 4.2 on AXP

Wed Feb 22 15:03:25 UTC 2006
Pasi Pirhonen <upi at iki.fi>

Hi,


On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:47:39PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> carlopmart wrote:
> >hi all,
> >
> > I will like to test CentOS 4.2 on alpha platform. I have a Digital 
> >Powerstation 433au with 128 MB of RAM and 4 GB Scsi disk. Does this 
> >hardware meets hardware requeriments for CentOS 4.2??
> >
> 
> yes it does, CentOS4 will work quite usable on that machine - I would go 
> with a Text install and remember you need to create the special boot 
> partition manually.
> 

Let me make this 'special boot partiotion' a little less special. It's
just that anaconda/diskdruid & friedns are not avare of situation whwre
aboot need some roughly 1MB space raw from start of the disk. So one
ust make first partition by choosing the free space and using the
'edit' button and make it start from 1 and be some needed space. That
will leave the first cylinder (usually at least 7MB) free, so aboot can
write itself to the begoning of the disk and not trash the boot
partiotion. I should be able to fix this on CentOS-4.3 tho.

I don't have above hardware (as i maintainer for Alpha/axp version)
myself, but if Karanbir days it works, i take it so.



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