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...
>>
>>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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> Adrian
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