[linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

> > From: "bruce" <bbales@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > >To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 7:18 PM
> > >Subject: [linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup
> > >
> > >>When you start the install, you get a page of options.  I
> > >>believe the first one is "Press enter for a graphic
> > >>installation."  One of the other choices is to type in
> > >> "expert" as I recall.  Don't do that.  Type "linux
> > >> mem=256m" and hit enter.  By the way, you said in your
> > >> first post you had 512k of DDR memory - I assume that is
> > >> 512M.
>
> Unless there is some problem with linux detecting memory,
> NEVER enter mem= I have heard that doing that will cause
> problems if linux is detecting the memory correctly.
>
> Basically, just hit enter, don't worry about mem= or even
> typing linux, unless you know what you are doing, because the
> way redhat does it the expert option disables all sorts of
> auto-probing, so you (in terms of figuring out hardware)
> might as well be using Debian (at least one of the older
> ones, like last release, haven't tried woody)

Notice I said "Don't type expert."  Apparently RH7.2 Linux does 
have a problem recognizing the amount of memory 'available' 
when some of it is shared with the video card.  I had three 
identical machines (800MHz Athlon with 60GB disk and 128MB 
memory) which refused (most of the time) to install RH7.2.  
They all installed perfectly and have been running 24/7 for 
eight months after I used "Linux mem=64m" to start the install. 
 

RH7.0 and 7.1 didn't have this problem, but lacked some of the 
drivers I needed.

I appreciate the warning and information about using "expert."  
I did try expert one time, but soon found out I was not an 
expert.
bruce
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