[CentOS] Upgrade Centos 6 (32 Bits) to Centos 7 (32 Bits)

Wed Nov 27 15:30:23 UTC 2019
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>


On 2019-11-27 08:59, John Pierce wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 6:31 AM Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 9:18 AM Ger van Dijck <ger.vandijck at edpnet.be>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all ,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a very old PC ( Acer2000) 32 Bits. On this machine I am running
>> (Do
>>> not laugh) SCO Unix in an antique version : So Centos6 probes with the
>>> bootloader on this OS and other OS s.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a way to opgrade Centos 6 to Centos 7 in the 32 Bits
>> architecture
>>> ?
>>>
>>        As far as I know, you cannot upgrade as you would with ubuntu
>> but have to do a full install. 32 bit images for centos 7 are found at
>> http://isoredirect.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/
> 
> 
> I googled it, and it appears an Acer 2000 is a Pentium-M 1.6 Ghz with 512MB
> to 2GB max ram.   I would stick with whatever is working on it, or put it
> out of its misery.

You can put one of BSD descendants on it, it will keep flying like a 
bird happily. Tougher thing would be to find something you will make it 
busy with, if you have younger, bigger, nicer replacement for it.

Valeri

> 
> My suggestion would be a significantly newer system that supports
> virtualization, and run your SCO and whatever in VMs rather than trying to
> multi-boot.
> 
> 

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