Upgrade CentOS 6 (32 Bits) To CentOS 7 (32 Bits)
Hi all ,
I have a very old PC ( Acer2000) 32 Bits. On this machine I am running (Do
not laugh) SCO Unix in an antique version : So CentOS6 probes with the
bootloader on this OS and other OS s.
Is there a way to opgrade CentOS 6 to CentOS 7 in the 32 Bits architecture
?
Any help would be usefull.
Regards.
Ger van Dijck.
9 thoughts on - Upgrade CentOS 6 (32 Bits) To CentOS 7 (32 Bits)
Dude, purchase a new computer. Almost all modern OSes stopped supporting 32bit architectures.
Salim
As far as I know, you cannot upgrade as you would with ubuntu but have to do a full install. 32 bit images for CentOS 7 are found at http://isoredirect.CentOS.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/
I googled it, and it appears an Acer 2000 is a Pentium-M 1.6 Ghz with 512MB
to 2GB max ram. I would stick with whatever is working on it, or put it out of its misery.
My suggestion would be a significantly newer system that supports virtualization, and run your SCO and whatever in VMs rather than trying to multi-boot.
You can put one of BSD descendants on it, it will keep flying like a bird happily. Tougher thing would be to find something you will make it busy with, if you have younger, bigger, nicer replacement for it.
Valeri
There is a group that voluntarily maintains a 32-bit CentOS 7. I installed that on an old Dell Celeron desktop. The performance was so poor, it was unusable. Then, I tried the lubuntu distro, and that has been running smoothly since July. It is also well-maintained, as there are regular updates. Lubuntu is a derivitive of Ubuntu, which is a derivative of Debian. With Debian, the biggest difference is update (if you are using the command-
line).
Todd Merriman Software Toolz, Inc.
-> With Debian, the biggest difference is update (if you are using the command-line).
Another big difference is the location and format of the networking files – /etc/network/interfaces instead of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg*.
“John Pierce” wrote:
With that kind of hardware, I’d try Debian, and if that doesn’t work, one of the distributions designed specifically for old hardware
(perhaps Bodhi, otherwise SliTaz).
Le 27/11/2019 à 15:18, Ger van Dijck a écrit :
There is a nice HOWTO nailed on the Church of Wittenberg.
:o)
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–Even a Raspberry Pi would be superior! Were I so budget-constrained, I’d just buy one of those. (Reserve CentOS for use with bigger and newer iron.)
I regularly see posts from people with machines a few years old who have to custom-spin drivers for their aging video, network, and RAID cards.