[CentOS] installing centos 7 32 bit i386 to laptop

Thu Jul 28 17:17:27 UTC 2016
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>


On 28/07/16 07:36, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
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> On 07/28/16 01:13, Ned Slider wrote:
>> On 28/07/16 06:16, John R Pierce wrote:
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>>> hmmm, that repository has no 32 bit RPMs.
>>>
>>> http://mirror.steadfast.net/centos/7/os/
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>>> but they do exist here, http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/os/ and
>>> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/updates/
>>>
>>> so you might need to tweak your /etc/yum.repos.d files a bit.
>>>
>>>
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>> Additionally, most 3rd party repos (e.g, epel above) do not ship 32-bit
>> packages for el7 as there is no 32-bit offering of RHEL from Red Hat. So
>> not much point configuring them in yum.
>>
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> hi Ned, you up late or early on your side of the pond?
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> the above altarch 7 repos links do have both 32 and 64 bit directories.
>

I was referring to the entry you had for the EPEL repository, not the 
distro repos.

> after reading John's post, i logged them and bookmarked both.
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> when i am trying something new, as i am now, i like to pull files so
> i have them local. saves going back online if i mess something up and
> have need again.
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