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> The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD,
> ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
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if you could install centos 3 on this hardware, then centos 5.x should work...any error messages from the console?