At 23:03 3/18/2004, you wrote:
I am trying to install FC1 on an HP pavillion 6330. The label on the machine says it has 64MB ram with 11MB shared with the video.
It sounds reasonable to assume this is a memory problem, so let's look at it that way and see if we can make it work. Now, you *should* (in theory) be able to install with 53MB of useful RAM, as others have had success with that in the past. However, your odds of success will increase if you can temporarily decrease the 11MB shared for video to, say, 4MB. As a matter of fact, you might want to leave it there since 64MB is not very much for a machine which uses a graphical desktop so the system will need all the RAM it can get.
This box will be acting as a simple X terminal logging in XDMCP to a RH9 box at 1024x768 16bit color so it will never need more than 1.5MB for video. I guess there is usually a way to partition the memory in the bios setup? This is the first machine that I've worked on that used that shared video/system memory stuff.
-Steve
