[CentOS] Re: No grahical install on notebook with Centos 5, did work with Centos 4
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed May 2 17:48:28 UTC 2007
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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