Hey Y'all,
Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find
out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4?
I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty.
I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to
replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it
but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to
do the install.
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On 11/22/2013 9:35 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:> I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. > I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to > replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it > but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to > do the install.its the GUI installer, try (at the grub boot: prompt), /*linux text */ then, choose the minimum packages, etc, and get a basic config. the text mode installer's disk utilities are ugly, sometimes its easiest to setup the disks ahead of time manually, then just tell the text installer to use your partitions as-is. // -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
On 23/11/13 00:35, Mark LaPierre wrote:> Hey Y'all, > > Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find > out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4? > > I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. > I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to > replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it > but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to > do the install. >CentOS is binary compatible to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so it shares the same minimum requirements. http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/articles-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-technology-capabilities-and-limits So assuming a machine that old is 32-bit; * RAM: 512MB minimum / 1 GB/logical CPU recommended * Disk: 1GB minimum / 5GB recommended -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?
Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the availability of drivers. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Mark LaPierre <marklapier at aol.com> wrote:> Hey Y'all, > > Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find > out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4? > > I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. > I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to > replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it > but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to > do the install. > -- > _ > ?v? > /(_)\ > ^ ^ Mark LaPierre > Registered Linux user No #267004 > https://linuxcounter.net/ > **** > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On 11/23/2013 07:35 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:> Hey Y'all, > > Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find > out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4? > > I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. > I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to > replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it > but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to > do the install.Hi Mark, I recently installed CentOS 6.4 on a 386 system with 512kb of memory. I had to use a kickstart file to achieve this as the text installer does not give you any opportunity to partition the disk to your specification. Regards ChrisG
On 11/23/2013 12:35 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:> Hey Y'all, > > Does anyone know where I can look, please post a URL, where I can find > out what the minimum system requirements are for CentOS 6.4? > > I've searched the CentOS.org web site for this but I've come up empty. > I've got an old machine that had RH9 on it. The HD died so I had to > replace that. Now I'm thinking that I want to install CentOS 6.4 on it > but the minimal install disk says that I don't have enough RAM for it to > do the install. >I suppose that I should have asked how much RAM is required to get the Minimal Install CD to work? I booted up the Live CD and did the install from there. The only problem seemed to be with installing the boot loader. The Live CD will not let me boot into rescue mode, and the Minimal Install CD kicks me out with a message that says there is not enough RAM to install CentOS on this machine. That seems strange seeing that it can boot up the Live CD and do the install from there. You would think that having the Live CD system up and running would suck up quite a bit of RAM but still it's happy to run the install. I think I could save the install if I could build an new initramfs image and then install the boot loader along the lines of: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CreateNewInitrd where it says: Boot in Rescue Mode Boot from a CentOS installation disc (for example, CD #1 or DVD). Type "linux rescue" at the "boot:" prompt. Mount all filesystems in read-write mode. The only CD images I can find for CentOS are the Live CD and Minimal Install CD neither of which allows me to boot into a rescue session. Maybe I could use a CentOS 5 boot disk? Maybe they have a CD image that will boot into rescue mode. Anyway, how much RAM does it take to satisfy the Minimal Install CD? -- _ ?v? /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****