Craig wrote: > Kent Emia wrote: > | my fellow friend in school have a presentation about linux and they are > | tasked to report on fc2 luckily i have cds to lend to her, > | > | now, the point... they are trying to install on a old PII-300 64mb and 1 > | mb video card and they have a problem installing the fc2 it would just > | restart after menu for installation > Sorry to have to point this out, but it won't load on that system. Take > a look at the minimum requirements to load fc2 on any computer and > you'll see that 64mb isn't enough for a graphical load (which I'm sure > is what she wants). In fact, 64mb is the bare minimum for a text install > and 192mb minimum for a graphical install. I think you are too pessimistic - I was running FC-1 on a 300MHz PII and it ran reasonably well with KDE. I'm pretty sure it had 64MB RAM - I wasn't able to get find any more RAM which would work in it. I still have the machine, but it is out of commission due to lack of a monitor. When I get one I'll try upgrading to FC-2, and I don't really expect any problems. The statement that you need 192MB for graphics is nonsense. I have two identical laptops (Sony Picturebook C1VFK). One has 128MB RAM, and the other has 256MB. I don't normally notice any great difference in the way they run. The OP should try installing in text mode (answer "linux text" to the boot prompt) and then try installing X afterwards, eg using system-config-display. I would guess that the install program has problems with the graphics card. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
