[CentOS] problem installing CentOS 5.3

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Buz Davis <buzdavis at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I have a small fixed ip network at home, running red hat 9 on two
> amd k6 500 Mhz boxes.  One has 256 M memory and the other 320 M.  They
> pretty much meet my needs, but lately I have detected that the internet
> sites
> I frequent are requiring some more modern software than I can run.   I
> attempted to install
> Fedora 8, but that failed on the AMD processors.  So I ordered a set of
> CentOS 5.3 i386 disks.

You need the i586 kernel for the AMD K6 machines. Bad news is CentOS 5
does not support it.  Good news is CentOS 4 supports it.

Visit http://i586.centos.org/centos/4/ and you will find what is
required to boot your system.  Once booted, type 'linux i586' to start
the installation.

Good luck!

Akemi