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

Fri Nov 23 21:02:14 UTC 2012
Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com>

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 :-)

Cheers,

  Phil..

-- 
currently (ab)using
CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow
Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal


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