On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 08/29/11 3:20 AM, ken wrote:
>
> You can continue to run EL 5 on it for years to come. Or choose any
> number of other Linux distributions which target down rev hardware.
Or just do what I did. Put an EL5 install on (which runs nicely). Download
the El6 live CD, and chroot into that (to use the newer yum). Using that yum,
do a yum install of EL6 into a new partition (I've previously used anaconda
for this, but this time I used yum). Install a kernel that doesn't need PAE:
[epel-kernel-nonpae]
name=Non-PAE kernel build for el6/i686
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/lkundrak/kernel-nonpae/epel-$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0
Twiddle the grub config, reboot, and be happy that your machine (in my case a
6 year old 1.1GHz Pentium M based laptop) runs CentOS 6 beautifully.
If you want to run linux on old hardware, you need to bring your own linux
knowledge to bear.
jh
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