Challenger

[Earle Beason]

Eerily  enough.....
 Your correct, it does share memory, and a good portion of it. As for 
upgrading it, I got it this thing in the scarp pile, did enough cleaning 
and basic troubleshooting to get it operating. I only have plans to use 
it to teach myself the basic of various Linux systems. My goal is to 
create an Office document, watch a DVD, play an MP3, get wireless 
accesss to the Internet on each distro and the scratch it and go to the 
next distro. It more of a learning toy then a functional computer for 
whatever it is I do. I have Fedora 7 on my tower that I becoming more 
and more inclined to use as I escape the clutches from Microsoft. My old 
tower is starting to look more like Linux bait ever day, I have some 
programs I haven't figured out how to run on the Linux box. I probably 
wait until Microsoft hamstrings the XP program in order to force me to 
go to Vista. The Dell Laptop I have will keep the Microsoft program on 
until my warranty expires then, It going Linux the next day

Good book to read, should be the lug mantra

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg246380.html






I suspect that the Thinkpad laptop is using shared video memory with 
system RAM. You might be able to reduce the amount of shared video RAM 
in the BIOS to allow the install to complete. Additionally, adding 
system RAM would be a good idea to enhance system performance especially 
for Fedora Core 6 or Fedora Core 7.

A smaller footprint distro might also be a workable solution as 
described below in the prevoius post.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,


Jeffrey A. McCright, A+
816-210-3107