[CentOS] No grahical install on notebook with Centos 5, did work with Centos 4

Ralph Angenendt ra+centos at br-online.de
Wed May 2 17:35:19 UTC 2007


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
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