[CentOS] VIA C3 support for CentOS 5? (i586 kernel)

Sun Dec 30 00:47:01 UTC 2007
Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>

Hi all.  Decided to upgrade an old Slackware 10 box I had.  The box is
running a VIA C3 processor and apparently doesn't support the cmov
extension that most i686 processors do.  As a result I cannot install
CentOS 5.

I discovered a few posts from way back in April:

  http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-April/079352.html
  http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-April/079439.html

Implying that an i586 version of the installer might be released.

Was something along those lines ever done, or could it still be done?
Or should I just stick with CentOS 4 for the time being?

(I did try 'i586 text' on my netboot 5.1 CD)

Thanks,
Ray