> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Barry Brimer > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:33 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box > > > I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive > > and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? > > Thanks, > > Mike. > > My firewall is a Pentium 75 with 48 MB of RAM running CentOS 4.7 + > current. I did a text based install, and the install took a > very long > time, but it works very well ..despite taking about 5 minutes > to boot up. --- Yes, even with a HP Machine 400Mhz Celeron and 128 MB of ram will work wonders. Top it off running on the GUI, all a bit slow but it will steam along. Try to find 3 more MB of ram because you really need it. Firefox is a lag to load but will eventually get rolling. JohnStanley