On Wed, 7 Jun 2017, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 06/06/2017 02:53 AM, John Hodrien wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> Mmmm... looks like I may go for C6, then, since unlike that Ubuntu, I >>> will >>> want to do updates at least every time I get ready for a trip (other >>> times, it sits in the closet turned off). >> >> I went for C6 on a Samsung NC10 (1.6GHz Atom N270 1GB RAM), only because it >> refused to boot off the C7 ISO for some reason, and I didn't want to waste >> time tracking down why. > > Because that is a 32-bit (not 64-bit) processor. There is an AltArch > 32-bit CentOS-7 distro as well: > > http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/ I was using the AltArch i386 release. I put it down to a grumbly BIOS not liking the ISO I'd put on a USB stick, but couldn't be bothered to sort out a 32bit PXE install. C6 went on just fine, and given what I'm using the netbook for, wasn't really a worse option. jh