I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? Thanks, Mike.
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> 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 system. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
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...
> 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 ..despite taking about 5 minutes to boot up.
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 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 ..despite taking about 5 minutes > to boot up.--- Yes, even with a HP Machine 400Mhz Celeron and 128 MB of ram will work wonders. Top it off running on the GUI, all a bit slow but it will steam along. Try to find 3 more MB of ram because you really need it. Firefox is a lag to load but will eventually get rolling. JohnStanley
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 of test servers running on similar platforms. But you >> have to get the memory up to at least 256Mb... >> > And use a text based install.It depends. If you have all 256Mb, it still works. But if your video 'steals' some of it, yes you go to text install...
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 <mikie.simpson at gmail.com> wrote:> On 1/22/09, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> 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 combined(!) 768MB of RAM and Swap to successfully install >> CentOS 5.2 (see the release notes). >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ralph > > I have CentOS5 on a dell d400 latitude with 700MHz p3 and 256MB RAM.I > installed using graphical installer and http for packages. > Anaconda switches on swap real early but it all works. > Switching out the hd for an ssd was a huge boost in performance and > battery time. > > mike > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> 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 functionality enabled, usually as a firewall, SAMBA server and/or web server. In all cases I took care during installation to install as little software as possible, disable all unnecessary daemons and use only the command line. Brett
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 real memory, the rest swap. Since I always make my swap > 2xRAM, I am always installing on a system with at least 768Mb combined. I do not like the DIsk Druid default of putting the swap drive into the LVM partition. I always redo the partitions so that swap is its own partition.
Ross Walker wrote:> On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> > 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 really it is a performance question as long as you have 256M of >> real >> memory, the rest swap. Since I always make my swap > 2xRAM, I am >> always >> installing on a system with at least 768Mb combined. >> >> I do not like the DIsk Druid default of putting the swap drive into >> the >> LVM partition. I always redo the partitions so that swap is its own >> partition. >> > > Why is that? Old school habit or is there a real benefit? >It just feels wrong in so many ways. Why is /boot its own partition and not swap? I suspend to swap, so swap has to be as accessible as /boot? Am I going to enlarge swap at some point using LVM tools? Or shrink it? Can you even do that with a swap partition in LVM? So what ARE the values of swap in LVM? One less partition, I would think if you are going duo boot. But if not, again, where is the beef?> 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.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> 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