On 3/10/09, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at 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 <snip> > 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....