I've just attempted to reinstall my ancient laptop that has Pentium MMX processor. Since it is ancient, I've decided to go with CentOS 2.1. Got stuck, installer claims I need at least i686. Hmmm... I know that 3.8 and 4.4 work without a glitch on i586, so this came as surprise. I even thing original RHEL2.1 might had support for i586 too (but I might be wrong). Anyhow, what happened with i586 in CentOS 2.1?
On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:> I've just attempted to reinstall my ancient laptop that has Pentium > MMX processor. Since it is ancient, I've decided to go with CentOS > 2.1. Got stuck, installer claims I need at least i686. Hmmm... I > know that 3.8 and 4.4 work without a glitch on i586, so this came > as surprise. I even thing original RHEL2.1 might had support for > i586 too (but I might be wrong). > > Anyhow, what happened with i586 in CentOS 2.1?RHEL 2.1 and later, to my knowledge, do not install on anything older than i686. When I needed to install RHEL 2.1 on one of these systems, I had to temporarily install on newer hardware, replace the GLIBC, SSL, etc with their 386 equivalents. Since we weren't using a RH kernel, we just placed ours compiled for 486 onto the disk, backed it up, and was able to run it on older hardware. I may have seen postings about CentOS being compiled for older hardware, but I haven't looked it up, or tried it myself, since my own hardware I've run Centos on is newer than that.
Although i386 kernel & glibc are provided, you can not install onto anything less than i686. You will have to attach the disk to something newer to do the install, downgrade the kernel, libc & openssl and then you should be able to stick the disk back into the 586. Be aware that there may be some i686 instructions in the i386 packages. This is due to packaging and compiler bugs but they are treated as WONTFIX by RH because their minimum supported arch is i686. You should be OK, just don't bet the house on it. John. Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:> I've just attempted to reinstall my ancient laptop that has Pentium MMX > processor. Since it is ancient, I've decided to go with CentOS 2.1. Got > stuck, installer claims I need at least i686. Hmmm... I know that 3.8 > and 4.4 work without a glitch on i586, so this came as surprise. I even > thing original RHEL2.1 might had support for i586 too (but I might be > wrong). > > Anyhow, what happened with i586 in CentOS 2.1? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >-- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin