--- "Ian P. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:02, Alex wrote: > > I recently tried to install Redhat 8 on an old > Pentium-75 Laptop with > > 24MB of RAM (its actually a TI Travelmate 5300). > > > > Since I don't have the CDROM, I copied all the ISO > files to 10GB > > harddrive (of which at least 8GB should be > accessible) and did a > > HardDrive install. > > > > Everything seemed to be working fine until the > part where the installer > > attempts to detect the video card. (Even though, > I did a text based > > install). > > > > It comes back and says there is insufficient > memory, reports an error, > > and stops. > > > > Does a TEXT based install of RedHat really require > more than 24MB of > > Ram? > > > > > > My initial attempts of getting RedHat onto this > laptop consisted of > > putting the laptop harddrive on my desktop, doing > the install, and then > > moving the harddrive to the laptop. This resulted > in the laptop > > mysteriously rebooting after the grub screen. > > > > I guess I could use a different distribution, but > I really like > > RedHat... Is there a way to make this work? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > -Alex > > I recently installed RH 8.0 text install, on an > eMachine with 32 MB of > RAM. The install went fine. I believe I got an > insufficient memory > error when I tried to run the graphic install. It > kept going, but > continued in text mode. If you do Ctrl-Alt-Fn a > couple times, there is > a screen that keeps track of what is happening > during the install. Does > that screen give any error messages? > > Ian P. Thomas > >
> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc I had the same error message by making some test with an old Mandrake 7.1, just before the beggining of the graphical installation (yes sorry, I am making tests because the red hat does not work on my nForce 1 + Duron + 256 Mo, and it is srange to speak about not emough memory !) ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
