I think 128 MB should work in text mode, if he can say exactly where it stops and what it says on the screen I might be able to guess. Do you have another stick of ram you can throw in it?
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:21 AM, John Summerfield < [email protected]> wrote: > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > >> I have an old machine with a 366MHz Celeron, 128MB, and an nVidia NV6 >> Vanta video card (according to lspci). I went to install RHEL5 on it, >> but the installer keeps failing. Even in text mode, it gets through the >> first several setup screens, then the screen flashes and displays a >> screenful of odd characters in 24x80 mode, then it stops and has to be >> powered off to reboot. >> >> I tried the vesa driver and the noprobe option, but the result is the >> same. Is this a hopeless cause? Or is there a way to upgrade without >> using the installer? >> >> I have RHEL4 running on it with no problem, but I'd like to upgrade, as >> I want to use this machine as a test platform for my main server, which >> runs RHEL5, and there is software I use that isn't packaged for RHEL4. >> >> TIA. >> >> Read the documentation. I think you don't have enough RAM, and if you > have enough RAM to run Anaconda, I think you will find RHEL isn't supported > on that hardware, so that you would be as well off running CentOS. > > On that hardware, if I chose to use it at all, I'd be running Debian. > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > [email protected] [email protected] > -- Advice > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html<http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > You cannot reply off-list:-) > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >
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