> From: Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> > > On 07/27/2010 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> 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? > By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy > is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need, > roughly? I mirror it manualy (os from the DVDs and update with a simple rsync), although there is a createrepo package for mirroring repos. My following repo (i386+x86_64) takes 12GB: 5/os/i386/CentOS 5/os/i386/repodata 5/os/i386/images 5/os/i386/images/pxeboot 5/os/i386/images/xen 5/updates/i386 5/updates/i386/RPMS 5/updates/i386/repodata 5/os/x86_64/CentOS 5/os/x86_64/repodata 5/os/x86_64/images 5/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot 5/os/x86_64/images/xen 5/updates/x86_64 5/updates/x86_64/RPMS 5/updates/x86_64/repodata About your main issue; did you try older releases or different distros to test? Maybe try these kernel options (noapic, acpi=off, etc...) JD