Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:43 +0100, Morten Torstensen wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > Oh boy! You've heard rumors that the BIOS manufacturers are going to > > begin supporting file-system-specific layouts? I find that hard to > > swallow. > > Well, in theory we don't need BIOS support. The B

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-27 Thread Morten Torstensen
William L. Maltby wrote: > Oh boy! You've heard rumors that the BIOS manufacturers are going to > begin supporting file-system-specific layouts? I find that hard to > swallow. Well, in theory we don't need BIOS support. The BIOS will check that the first sector of the device is signed with 55AAh

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-27 Thread Vnpenguin
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive > and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? I have a box PII 333MHz + 128 MB ram running (sshd, samba, httpd,...) CentOS 4.x at home. -- http://vnoss.org ___

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-27 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 08:28 +0100, Morten Torstensen wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: > > Well the only reason /boot isn't possible in LVM is because grub can't > > of yet handle reading LVM volumes. As soon as it can though, there will > > be no need for a separate /boot. > > Then we just need BIOS s

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-26 Thread Morten Torstensen
Ross Walker wrote: > Well the only reason /boot isn't possible in LVM is because grub can't > of yet handle reading LVM volumes. As soon as it can though, there will > be no need for a separate /boot. Then we just need BIOS support to boot from LVM, and we can create the PV on /dev/sda and never

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Agile Aspect
Ross Walker wrote: > Why is that? Old school habit or is there a real benefit? > > Swap performance should be equally good whether it be raw disk, raw > partition, LVM logical volume or even a flat file on today's kernels, > but maybe there is something I am unaware of The downside of file syst

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: >> On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Robert Moskowitz >> wrote: >> >> >>> Kai Schaetzl wrote: >>> Ralph Angenendt wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:31:20 +0100: > You need a combined(!) 768MB of RAM and S

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: > > >> Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> >>> Ralph Angenendt wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:31:20 +0100: >>> >>> >>> You need a combined(!) 768MB of RAM and Swap to successfully install CentOS 5.2 (see the r

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Ralph Angenendt wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:31:20 +0100: >> >> >>> You need a combined(!) 768MB of RAM and Swap to successfully install >>> CentOS 5.2 (see the release notes). >>> >> >> in graphics mode. > > And re

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:31:20 +0100: > > >> You need a combined(!) 768MB of RAM and Swap to successfully install >> CentOS 5.2 (see the release notes). >> > > in graphics mode. And really it is a performance question as long as you have 256M of re

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Warren Young
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> James A. Peltier wrote: >>> CentOS 5 requires 512MB for installation >> I had an EL5 install attempt fail on a VM with 512 MB of RAM. Big ugly >> anaconda Python stack dump type error. Upped the RAM for the VM, and it >> installed. > > You need a

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Brett Serkez
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive > and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? Depends on what you want to use it for. I have successfully run CentOS on PIIIs with as little as 256MB of memory, but with limited

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:31:20 +0100: > You need a combined(!) 768MB of RAM and Swap to successfully install > CentOS 5.2 (see the release notes). in graphics mode. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Dougal Ballantyne
I install many Xen domU systems with 256MB running CentOS 5.x. If you use text base installer, you should have no issues. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Michael Simpson wrote: > On 1/22/09, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Warren Young wrote: >> > James A. Peltier wrote: >> > > >> > > CentOS 5 requ

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Simpson
On 1/22/09, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Warren Young wrote: > > James A. Peltier wrote: > > > > > > CentOS 5 requires 512MB for installation > > > > I had an EL5 install attempt fail on a VM with 512 MB of RAM. Big ugly > > anaconda Python stack dump type error. Upped the RAM for the VM, and it > >

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Warren Young wrote: > James A. Peltier wrote: > > > > CentOS 5 requires 512MB for installation > > I had an EL5 install attempt fail on a VM with 512 MB of RAM. Big ugly > anaconda Python stack dump type error. Upped the RAM for the VM, and it > installed. You need a combined(!) 768MB of RAM

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Silva wrote: > on 1-21-2009 3:42 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: > >> Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> >>> I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive >>> and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? >>> >> Bring the memory up to 256Mb. >> >> I have a number o

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread John
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Barry Brimer > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:33 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box > > > I have an old 400mHz Dell wi

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 21, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Barry Brimer wrote: >> I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive >> and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? >> Thanks, >> Mike. > > My firewall is a Pentium 75 with 48 MB of RAM running CentOS 4.7 + > current. I did a text based install, and the inst

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Barry Brimer
> I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive > and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? > Thanks, > Mike. My firewall is a Pentium 75 with 48 MB of RAM running CentOS 4.7 + current. I did a text based install, and the install took a very long time, but it works very well ..despit

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Kevin Krieser
Just to comment that this was with an actual RH installation DVD, not CentOS. The only systems I've installed CentOS on has had at least 1GB of RAM. On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Kevin Krieser wrote: > You can install 5 on it, but you probably won't be too happy with it. > Make sure to have m

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Kevin Krieser
You can install 5 on it, but you probably won't be too happy with it. Make sure to have more than the default amount of swap installed. On Jan 21, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED > wrote: >> I have an old 400mHz Dell with

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:37 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED >> wrote: >>> I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive >>> and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? > > CentOS 5

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-21-2009 3:42 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: > Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive >> and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? > > Bring the memory up to 256Mb. > > I have a number of test servers running on similar platforms. Bu

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Warren Young
James A. Peltier wrote: > > CentOS 5 requires 512MB for installation I had an EL5 install attempt fail on a VM with 512 MB of RAM. Big ugly anaconda Python stack dump type error. Upped the RAM for the VM, and it installed. ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive > and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? Bring the memory up to 256Mb. I have a number of test servers running on similar platforms. But you have to get the memory up to at least 256Mb... ___

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread James A. Peltier
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED > wrote: >> I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive >> and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? >> Thanks, > > You can install/run the CentOS-3 OS. CentOS-4 might run. I do

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive > and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? > Thanks, You can install/run the CentOS-3 OS. CentOS-4 might run. I do not think CentOS-5 would be able to be installed on the syst

[CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? Thanks, Mike. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos