On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:11 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800 > > Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If your laptop was "happily running 10" and an upgrade screwed it > > up, I don't feel sorry for you ;>) > > > > e > > Damn! And I really wanted someone to feel sorry for me, too. No > cooperation at all in this world of ours. > > For the record, my main box is 9.2 and won't change soon. The > laptop is a toy. > > Also for the record, when I dl'ed the iso's and did a fresh install, > then updated with the gui, as a rookie would have done, everything > worked perfectly except that it wouldn't do x at 70hz. My only > complaint then was the lack of a gui installer, but that's probably > due to the 256m memory in the laptop. more likely not the 256, but what ever of that 256 is "shared video memory" so to get the install, when it askes "hit enter to install, or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type (without the quotes, of course) "linux mem=240M" (don't foprget the last capital M) if you have 256 installed memory and 'share' 16 megs as video mem. or if you have 32 megs shared video mem then subtract 32 from the 256, (linux mem=224M)
> > I am about to do a club update, just to see if it withstands that. > > Lee -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website="http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org";
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