[CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

Tue Dec 4 17:08:50 UTC 2012
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

On 11/23/2012 04:02 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> On 11/23/2012 08:26 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 21:12 +0100, Radu Anghel wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>>> On 11/23/2012 02:37 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>> <snip>
>>> The i386 one should boot on both 32/64bit platforms, but with only
>>> 256/512M of RAM I don't think you can install CenOS 6.x.
>> IIRC, 512 s/b enough for a text-mode install.
>>> The CPU flag you're looking for in /proc/cpuinfo is "lm" (Long Mode).
>>> <snip>
> I've got a couple of VMs running minimal 6.3 with 256 MB.
>
> They're only good for testing purposes against very low activity stuff
> but they run quite happily.
>
> Just don't try running '# yum update' though. They crash real good :-)

Well I finally got the one system booting.  It is showing as a i386 type 
system.  Thanks for the help.  Now to do a first install...