On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 11:29 +0530, Just Do it wrote: > Did you ever figure out if you have onboard video sharing ram??? Or, > do > you have a good video card with it's own vram? > > Ric > --> I have onboard video card only....which is coming as default... There is a very large probability that there is the problem, and you may wish to tool around through the archives about this problem that we had since 2000 with onboard video. If at all possible, find out if there is a local user group and there you will find people like me with boxes of old parts to give away. Someone can put an older S3 card in your hands for free and be glad to do so. Then disable the onboard video either with a jumper setting or in the bios. The jumper setting is preferable, if one exists. Now, all of your mainboard memory will be available to the install process, the kernel will reward you for less "confusion" about just how much memory you have and happily install. Probably still in text mode, but that's OK. I put FC3 on my old K5 box with 128 megs of memory on it, after lying in the garage for quote awhile. Later FC4 and another 128 megs of memory added. Then did the upgrade path to FC5. Still running. It would not install FC6. Period. Flat out failed. So, I backed down to a clean install of FC5, and it runs, slow as molasses. I was bored and did it to experiment with an NFS network to my 64 bit Athlon 3200 with 2 GIGs of memory. Your machine is far faster than my old POS, so FC5 or FC6 should install with no sweat, the only drawback I can see is the onboard video sharing mainboard memory. That, as I suggested, can be fixed for free once you network yourself around. Give me your address, if you have no luck locally, and I'll send you one gratis myself. Life is good. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
