I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a
Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm
using the DVD image.
The media check said the DVD was OK.
Everything starts fine (both in graphics and text
modes), untl I get to the custom partition table. The
new system will go on hda, with the boot and root
partition reformatted (see below). I laid it out to
preserve the data on /home and another two partitions
with a lot of data on each. One of these is mounted
as /proj but Anaconda shows it as a giant swap
partition.
After I'm done with the formatting and mount points, I
say OK, and then nothing happens. I left it run for
over an hour, and then bailed out. Before rebooting, I
looked at the console messages. There were a couple of
warnings but no indications of anything fatal. Just
nothing for over an hour.
I'm downloading a new image (actually the CDs) just in
case the media's bad.
I also suspect the partition layout may be a problem.
It was done long ago on the first hard drive:
/boot 100 megs
/ 10 gigs
/home 10 gigs
extended ...
/proj 25 gigs
/opt 10 gigs
swap 500 megs
Once the CDs are in, I'll try again. If it fails, I'll
do a new partition table on the first hard drive -- I
have everything backed up.
If anyone has a better idea, or if I'm way off base,
let me know.
hda -> ST360021A, ATA 60 gig Seagate
hdb -> Maxtor 6Y160L0, ATA 150 gig
Thanks,
Barry
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On 22 September 2007, Barry Schiffman <schiffo2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:> Message: 15 > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:22:39 -0700 (PDT)<snip>> I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a > Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm > using the DVD image.Barry: Possibly the small amount of RAM is causing it to fail at the partitioning stage of the installation? I have CentOS 5.0 running on a box with 384 MB of RAM and on two boxes with 512 MB of RAM. Whether or not the 256 MB of RAM you have is causing the problem, consider adding more RAM. You and your system will be happier with more RAM! Lanny http://lowcostmagazines.com
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 14:22 -0700, Barry Schiffman wrote:> I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a > Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm > using the DVD image. > > The media check said the DVD was OK. > > Everything starts fine (both in graphics and text > modes), untl I get to the custom partition table. The > new system will go on hda, with the boot and root > partition reformatted (see below). I laid it out to > preserve the data on /home and another two partitions > with a lot of data on each. One of these is mounted > as /proj but Anaconda shows it as a giant swap > partition.I don't know if this is your problem, but check here http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.0/ under known problems and here *may* apply http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1232 although it references CentOS 4. More: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/report.php? forum=27&topic_id=8031&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&post_id=25410 what led me to find these is that ISTR several posts specifying that a text install takes 256MB and graphical needs 512MB. Although I googled (only a reasonable amount) with "site:centos.org", I didn't find the threads I remembered. Maybe if you google it, you'll have better luck. Anyway, I hope you have good luck on the install.> <snip>FWIW, I have successfully installed CentOS 4 on and AMD K6 w/256MB ram. You might want to do that and then upgrade to 5.0. <warning> ISTR that upgrade 4.x->5.0 was not a straightforward process. Several threads exist about that and (IIRC) one nice community member has posted a step-by-step (in the wiki?). </warning> Anyway, google, check the wiki, etc. I'm sure you can get where you want to be. HTH -- Bill