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> >>> How do I determine if I have a i386 or x86_64 processor? >> less /proc/cpuinfo ? > > So I need the liveCD to boot to get to this point? Which one. > > Oh, my current systems are running Centos 5.4 (I think) and only have > 256Mb and 512Mb memory. To go to 6.n, I need more memory, like 1Gb. So > I have a couple systems on the floor that I dropped new drives into so > they don't have a running OS yet. > 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. The CPU flag you're looking for in /proc/cpuinfo is "lm" (Long Mode).