Re: No grahical install on notebook with Centos 5, did work with Centos 4

[Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ralph Angenendt spake the following on 5/2/2007 10:35 AM:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Working to put Centos 5 on my old Toshiba Portege 3490ct (256Mb memory). 
>> PCMCIA CDrom and Lan card.
>>
>> After recognizing the video card I get the message about no graphical 
>> install available.  Putting on and external monitor does not change this.
> 
> Let me quote the Release Notes:
> 
>   o The anaconda installer needs at least 128MB of memory to work, and
>     will only use text mode if the system has less than 256MB of RAM.
> 
> I guess that this is "includig 256MB".
> 
> Ralph
The installer could be reading your system as less than 256 MB of ram. Does it
have shared memory for the video?
I have installed in 256 M on VMWare, so you could try the linux graphical
( I think ) option.

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