On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:37 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at fas.sfu.ca> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED >> <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> wrote: >>> I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive >>> and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? <snip> > > CentOS 5 requires 512MB for installation due to building package > dependancy trees. Once installed it will *run* with less, of course, > package dependency issues can still arise afterwards. I have one box running CentOS 5.2 with 384 MB of RAM. I did the graphical install on it, as on the 2 boxes with 512 MB of RAM.