Re: [MLUG] install problem

[Daniel Nowlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Thanks for the tips.  Since this is going to be a file server then 
version 4.4 i386 server should work just fine.  Glad to find just a 
server version.  Wish more dirtos would create one.  I get tired of 
removing packages that a server does not need.  It took me hours to come 
up with a BARE minimum KS file for centos5.  When I say BARE I mean 
BARE.  I had networking, bash, and yum.  The thing booted so fast it 
blew me away.  Then I just installed the services, packages, and deps 
that I needed.  Running apache, smb, postfix, ssh, and tivo galleon all 
in abut 400M.

Jack Smith wrote:
> 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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