[CentOS] Old Small Box

Thu Jan 22 07:47:49 UTC 2009
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 1-21-2009 3:42 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following:
>   
>> Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>>     
>>> I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive
>>> and 125M ram.  Can I install and run CentOS on it?
>>>       
>> Bring the memory up to 256Mb.
>>
>> I have a number of test servers running on similar platforms. But you 
>> have to get the memory up to at least 256Mb...
>>     
> And use a text based install.

It depends.  If you have all 256Mb, it still works.  But if your video 
'steals' some of it, yes you go to text install...