On 07/27/2010 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello listmates, > > I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). > So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on > this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off > hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal > exception. OK, no problem - thinking that maybe something was wrong > with that machine I decided to try it on a different one, a P-3 with > 384 MB or RAM. Same thing happened. > > So here's my question: has anybody successfully installed CentOS 5.5 > on a 32-bit machine (i386) using individual CD's as their installation > media? > The closest I have is a P3 with 1 GByte of RAM over HTTP using the 5.4 netinstall CD that I installed several months ago (I keep a local mirror of the CentOS tree). That worked fine for me. My first thought on a machine that old would be either flaky memory or or a flaky CD drive. I would run memtest86+ on them and then try a network install. You can mount the DVD ISO on loopback on a webserver for an install source. -- Benjamin Franz