Install of RH 7.3 on "older" laptop
zscoundrel
zscoundrel at kc.rr.com
Tue Aug 20 03:16:49 CDT 2002
Not sure, but I had a lot more HD to work with. I probably went with
the default.
L. Adrian Griffis wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Chris Hoelscher wrote:
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>>Hi. Having some fun. I have an old Compaq LTE 5300 laptop laying around, and thought I'd try
loading Red Had 7.3. All goes
>>well (albeit a very "light" install on the 1.3 gig disk), and at the end of the install, I
configure X for 800x600 with 16bit
>>color. The test works o.k., so I think I'm in...
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>>After I reboot, however, when I try to 'startx', it crashes. The error log indicates not enough
memory for any of the configured
>>modes. The thing has 32 Meg of ram, and a 1 meg video card, what more could it want? ;)
>>
>>Am I just out of luck getting X up on a P-133 with 32 Meg ram? Or is there some secret that can
be shared?
>>
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> How much swap did you configure?
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