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by 3h8d 4360 days ago
Would it be possible to assign swap to a removable media device and then bootstrap the installer to run in that environment on a device with 128mb?
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Probably. You'll have to hack the install procedure to enable swapping before it's being run though.

If you're serious about trying this, the fastest path is to install CentOS in a VM on a suitable machine that isn't going to spend a day in the installer swapping like crazy, and copy the image to a physical drive which you eventually stuff into the ancient low memory box.