Ah, the old "less than 96 MB available" bug - is there a place to enable/disable some sort of "memory hole" in the BIOS?
Joe jbrave wrote: > Thanks all. I tend to think that whatever the problem is, it has to do > with this old beater computer I'm experimenting with. > > FYI, the error that I get when trying to install in the first place, > is something like 'cannot start YAST gui, less than 96mb available, > then it goes to the text install mode. The drive has 80gb or more, the > computer has 512mb ram, and I tried various settings for the AGP > aperature in the event that had anything to do with it, currently set > to 256mb... > > Joel > > Sloan wrote: >> jbrave wrote: >> >>> Better now: >>> >>> booted in single user mode >>> >>> set root password >>> >>> rebooted >>> >>> This time it took "root" as the login, and I was able to log in. No >>> gui though, just one full text screen. Is there a way to launch gui >>> from here? >>> >> Hmm, I hesitate to continue on this track since the install was not >> successfully completed. But since (IIRC) it was unable to launch a GUI >> during the install, there would be no GUI configured. Something has gone >> very wrong, and rather than continue down this path, it's probably a >> good idea to back up and find out what went wrong. >> >> Joe >> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
