Lanny Marcus wrote:
On 3/10/09, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
Using Google to search you can begin with: "site:centos.org" and then your search terms
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With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall.
I have installed CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) using the graphical install on a box with 384 MB of RAM. Slow, but it worked. My daughters box is a P4 1.6 GHz with 384 MB of RAM. It will install with 512 MB of RAM, more happily. Wife's box and mine have 512 MB of RAM.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Have you tried the CentOS LiveCD on that HW, to see if everything will work properly? I haven't had to use any special parameters, to get the graphical installs to work on our old Desktop boxes. If it won't go with the LiveCD, try another version.... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
The system works properly with the LiveCD. GUI and network come up fine. No kernel options needed.