Re: [MLUG] install problem

[Jack Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Alternatively, you could recompile the packages on the CentOS 5 CD for
march=i586 and then remaster the disc. If It was me, I'd probably also
set the GCC options for -Os since a 500 MHz AMD (most likely a K6-2 or
K6-III, I had a K6-2/500) has little or no onboard L2 cache. Then it
should install just fine and would run well too *IF* the repos are i586.
If they are i686, then you'd have to recompile those from source as
well, which would probably take a second machine  helping out as a 500
MHz K6-2 or K6-III would probably be spending most of its time compiling
and little doing actual work.

You could also look at using another binary distro that is up-to-date
but is not compiled for i686. Debian of course springs to mind since I'm
running the amd64 version of it, but SUSE, Ubuntu, Slackware, and a
bunch of others are i386/i486/i586 and not i686. IIRC, most 32-bit x86
distros are i386 or i586 and not i686. Debian Etch/4.0 would be probably
as good of a fit for your machine as CentOS 5 as it is  very stable and
will be supported for some time yet. You could also use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
that was released earlier in the week as it will be supported for a
while, but I don't think it has quite the same level of testing yet as
Debian Etch or CentOS/RHEL.

--Jack

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 14:59 -0500, Daniel Nowlin wrote:
> D/Ling version 4 server cd right now.
> 
> Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote:
> > Yeah, that might be it. I recently moved my home server from an old Dell
> > workstation to a homebrewed box based off of little Via C3 (moved drives
> > to new box, boot and pray), and it did the same thing. I eventually
> > decided to moving from the Ubuntu server kernel to their generic desktop
> > kernel, and that did the trick. So, perhaps try a different kernel in
> > your install?
> >
> > --Hardy  
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED 
> >> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Nowlin
> >> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:47 PM
> >> To: MLUG Members
> >> Subject: Re: [MLUG] install problem
> >>
> >> OK I think I may have figured it out.  For some reason centos5 is 
> >> compiled for i686 only.
> >>
> >> Daniel Nowlin wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Would anybody know why centos5 would reboot the machine right after 
> >>> the initrd load at install.  The machine is an older AT AMD 500 Mhz 
> >>> with 256M ram?  I have tried linux text, linux text noprobe, linux 
> >>> text mem=256M noprobe, and linux text mem=256M noprobe noacpi.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> -- 
> >> Daniel Nowlin
> >> DataCenter Tech III
> >> TelCom DataCenter
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