Centos 6.5 install fail
Installing Centos 6.5 on IBM ThinkPad with Win XP.
Cold boot CDROM spins up Centos 6 screen appears but no menu nothing more. |
the 6.5 dvd will likely fail
6.5 is UNSUPPORTED the software moved to the historical archive "The Vault" please use the CURRENT ( in the older 6 series ) 6.6 or install the CURRENT version of CentOS CentOS 7.1 now as to the hardware what is in this old thinkpad and HOW OLD is it ? if it is one of the celeron laptops from 2002 or 5 http://www.cnet.com/products/ibm-thi...-13-ghz/specs/ you might have to use the LEGACY hardware older 5 series CentOS 5.11 or is it one of the win2000 pentium3 jobs http://www.cnet.com/products/ibm-thi...b-30-gb/specs/ you are looking at "Damn Small Linux" |
Thanks for your reply, John.
I've started the Linux course and they suggest having a system operating. So, my old IBM has Win XP and is therefore idle and available for experiment. The CPU is a 600 mHz Pentium M that should be adequate. I tinkered with the boot routine and got the Centos menu up but it complains about the inappropriate kernel. Your comments will keep me from charging up a blind alley and I thank you for that especially. My other machines are Win 8 and I hesitate to go to a dual boot. I did that back in the early days of MS Windows and had some problems. Just recently I loaded a prelim version of MS Win 10 as a dual boot and it cost me one of my favorite time-killer games that I cannot replace. Anyway, I'm on my way to a version 7 now. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to help out. Kenny |
how much RAM ?
cent 6 really likes a gig of ram, or more , but will run ? ok ? with 512 meg if this laptop has 128 to 256 meg ram you will have a problem CentOS 5 ran fast ( many years ago ) on a desktop with 512 meg ram and a early pentium4 |
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The RAM is 768 Meg. I presume that is sufficient for ver. 7.1
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There's ample documentation so there's no valid reason to "presume" anything.
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My newbie error. Please forgive.
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"Pentium M" is a 32-bit processor family. The standard CentOS 7 release is 64-bit only. There has been some work on a 32-bit version, but you won't find it yet on the regular download sites. It's strictly a volunteer effort. Red Hat does not provide a 32-bit version of RHEL 7.
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Thx, RK. Very helpful. I'm going over to Ubuntu for now.
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Does that processor support PAE? If not, you'll find that very few modern distros will work. I believe Debian (at least 5, maybe one of the newer ones) can run a non-PAE 32-bit kernel, probably a few others.
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Thx ER, that's a really good question. Checking Wikipedia I find:
"The Banias family processors internally support PAE but do not show the PAE support flag in their CPUID information; this causes some operating systems (primarily Linux distributions) to refuse to boot on such processors since PAE support is required in their kernels." I guess that shoots down my venerable IBM Thinkpad. |
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