[CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

[ken]

On 08/30/2011 04:32 AM John Hodrien wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote:
> 
>> On 08/29/11 3:20 AM, ken wrote:
>>
>> You can continue to run EL 5 on it for years to come.  Or choose any
>> number of other Linux distributions which target down rev hardware.
> 
> Or just do what I did.  Put an EL5 install on (which runs nicely).  Download
> the El6 live CD, and chroot into that (to use the newer yum).  Using that yum,
> do a yum install of EL6 into a new partition (I've previously used anaconda
> for this, but this time I used yum).  Install a kernel that doesn't need PAE:
> 
> [epel-kernel-nonpae]
> name=Non-PAE kernel build for el6/i686
> baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/lkundrak/kernel-nonpae/epel-$releasever/$basearch/
> enabled=1
> skip_if_unavailable=1
> gpgcheck=0
> 
> Twiddle the grub config, reboot, and be happy that your machine (in my case a
> 6 year old 1.1GHz Pentium M based laptop) runs CentOS 6 beautifully.
> 
> If you want to run linux on old hardware, you need to bring your own linux
> knowledge to bear.

John,

It's refreshing to receive an on-topic, intelligent and civil response,
one worthy of replying to.  And kudos for crafting this solution!

Can I ask, how long have you been running this configuration?  And have
you noticed in this time any problems related to the non-PAE kernel?
Also, do you run server apps on your laptop, e.g.. apache, mysqld, sshd,
cups, postfix, mailman?  It might be easier just to send the output of
"chkconfig --list |grep -w on"... to me privately if you have security
concerns.

Thanks++,
ken