On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Ralph Blach <rcblach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On am embedded power pc project with 256 mb of ram, I ran fvwm, just fine. > This was with nfs root and a very old matrox video card. > > I also compiled xdoom, madplay, and mozilla. > > So this can be done, you will just need to install the basic machine in text > mode, the install x, and fvwm along with the apps you want. > > Chip. > > Tony Nelson wrote: >> >> On 10-01-07 18:40:16, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>>> >>>> we at work have some PC's with 256 MB RAM, the graphical mode >>>> doesn't load, so we choice the text mode, but in all machines we >>>> get the same error, Anaconda 12.47 >>>> >>>> do you have an idea how to solve it? >>> >>> Yeah, add ram. Anaconda needs like 1/2 gig, and nevermind trying to >>> Fedora w/< 1/2gig as well... >> >> Umm, don't you think that the Anaconda developers know what is >> required, and that the rather minimal text-mode install is designed to >> use less memory? >> >> OP: There may be useful info in the other VTs when the error occurs. >> >> If you can't find a workaround, try Debian, which has much better >> support than Fedora for small memory machines, due to the different >> goals of the projects. If you want to run a GUI on 256 MB, you might >> want to choose something less memory-hungry than Gnome or KDE. >> Try appending "nomodeset" to grub. You may also need to add "vga=791" or "vga=ask" to ensure selection of a suitable display driver. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
