Scott Silva wrote: > 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? > Oh, yeah. I seem to recall that being the case. I know that 256Mb works for graphical install, as I did it on a Compaq SFF. I will go into the bios and see if I can disable the shared memory enough for the install.