CentOS - Jan 2020 - Centos 7 32 Bits install.

Hi all,



Question : Can I install Centos7 32 Bits on a computer i386 32 bits little  
indian pentium III Copermine Model8 Cpufamily 6 CpuMhz 863.979 (lscpu)  
grep -i pae /proc/cpuinfo gives a flag pae .



I am very curieus,



Ger van Dijck.
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On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 7:55 AM Ger van Dijck <ger.vandijck at edpnet.be>
wrote:
> Question : Can I install Centos7 32 Bits on a computer i386 32 bits
> little
> indian pentium III Copermine Model8 Cpufamily 6 CpuMhz 863.979 (lscpu)
> grep -i pae /proc/cpuinfo gives a flag pae .
>

Thats a 20 year old computer.   It likely uses a bunch of really obsolete
stuff like AGP video.

Personally, I wouldn't even try, C7 32 bit is something of a bastard child
in that RHEL 7 is 64 bit only, and there's very little usage or testing on
the centos-only 32 bit version.


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-john r pierce
  recycling used bits in santa cruz

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> Hi all,
>
>
>
> Question : Can I install Centos7 32 Bits on a computer i386 32 bits little
> indian pentium III Copermine Model8 Cpufamily 6 CpuMhz 863.979 (lscpu)
> grep -i pae /proc/cpuinfo gives a flag pae .
I tried that on a Dell Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.10GHz, and the performance
was unusable.  Then, I tried Lubuntu 32 (a streamlined Ubuntu distro) and
got very acceptable performance.

Todd Merriman
Software Toolz, Inc.

On 1/12/20 9:54 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> 
> 
> Question : Can I install Centos7 32 Bits on a computer i386 32 bits
> little indian pentium III Copermine Model8 Cpufamily 6 CpuMhz 863.979
> (lscpu) grep -i pae /proc/cpuinfo gives a flag pae .
> 
> 
> 
> I am very curieus,
It will likely install .. but if less than 1GB of RAM, it would also
likely be a terrible experience for anything except a non gui based install.


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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:45:02 +0100, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>  
wrote:
> On 1/12/20 9:54 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Question : Can I install Centos7 32 Bits on a computer i386 32 bits
>> little indian pentium III Copermine Model8 Cpufamily 6 CpuMhz 863.979
>> (lscpu) grep -i pae /proc/cpuinfo gives a flag pae .
>>
>>
>>
>> I am very curieus,
>
> It will likely install .. but if less than 1GB of RAM, it would also
> likely be a terrible experience for anything except a non gui based  
> install.
>
>
Hi Johnny ,


On this machine I run Centos 6 with 1 Gb (is the maximum) RAM memory  
installed and believe it or not Centos runs fine with an acceptable  
responstime.


But when trying to do a fresh install or a netinstall (both Centos 7) I  
get the following message :

[ 0.123604] ACPI:SCI(ACPI GSI 9) not registered
[28.595238] systemd[1] Caught <ILL> , dump core as pid 75
[28.595814] systemd[1] : Freezing execution.


Question : What now ?



Regards ,


Ger van Dijck.


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On 13/1/20 2:54 am, Ger van Dijck wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
>
>
> Question : Can I install Centos7 32 Bits on a computer i386 32 bits 
> little indian pentium III Copermine Model8 Cpufamily 6 CpuMhz 863.979 
> (lscpu) grep -i pae /proc/cpuinfo gives a flag pae .
> ...
Here's an alternative if CentOS performance is not satisfactory on that 
computer.

I believe Elive [0] was created for exactly your aged computer.When you 
visit [1] below, take a look at the section titled "*Fast Dinosaurs!*"
where they have a few YouTube videos showing old computers running 
Elive.? One video in particular: "*Pentium-II, 266 Mhz, 64 MB of RAM, 
12GB HD Toshiba 4080xcdt -- Running Elive!*"

It took about 3 minutes to get to the GUI.? However, the point here is 
that /*if*/ Elive runs on a Pentium-II @ 266Mhz, it ought to run quite 
well on a Pentium-III @ +860Mhz.

[0]: https://www.elivecd.org/
[1]: https://www.elivecd.org/user-reviews/