CentOS - May 2007 - No grahical install on notebook with Centos 5, did work with Centos 4

Hello again.

Working to put Centos 5 on my old Toshiba Portege 3490ct (256Mb memory). 
PCMCIA CDrom and Lan card.

Using 'linux askmethod' to be able to install off of my FTP server (have
done 4 PC installs so far off that server successfully)

It's video card is:

S3 86C270-294 Savage IX/MV

After recognizing the video card I get the message about no graphical 
install available.  Putting on and external monitor does not change this.

Problem with the character mode install is no LVM partition management 
functions.  I need to alter the default partitioning.

This IS an older notebook.  It does have Centos 4.4 on it right now.

How would I use the ftp install and specify 'acpi=no'  (perhaps the old 
bios???).

Or I could build a partial kickstart file on a diskette (add the USB 
diskette drive) to do the partitioning and then switch to package 
selection (and maybe even in graphical mode)?

Some guidance here would be great.

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:57:59PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz
wrote:
> Hello again.
> 
> Working to put Centos 5 on my old Toshiba Portege 3490ct (256Mb memory). 
> PCMCIA CDrom and Lan card.
> 
> Using 'linux askmethod' to be able to install off of my FTP server
(have
> done 4 PC installs so far off that server successfully)
> 
> It's video card is:
> 
> S3 86C270-294 Savage IX/MV
> 
> After recognizing the video card I get the message about no graphical 
> install available.  Putting on and external monitor does not change this.
Add option graphical to install. I don't recommend it, though, as you
don't have much memory.
> Problem with the character mode install is no LVM partition management 
> functions.  I need to alter the default partitioning.
You can create the LVM partitions in the Centos4 install, or manually in
the console in tty2, if you're confortable with that.

You should then be able to use them in the text mode installer.

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Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:57:59PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> Hello again.
>>
>> Working to put Centos 5 on my old Toshiba Portege 3490ct (256Mb
memory).
>> PCMCIA CDrom and Lan card.
>>
>> Using 'linux askmethod' to be able to install off of my FTP
server (have
>> done 4 PC installs so far off that server successfully)
>>
>> It's video card is:
>>
>> S3 86C270-294 Savage IX/MV
>>
>> After recognizing the video card I get the message about no graphical 
>> install available.  Putting on and external monitor does not change
this.
>>     
>
> Add option graphical to install. I don't recommend it, though, as you
> don't have much memory.
>
>   
>> Problem with the character mode install is no LVM partition management 
>> functions.  I need to alter the default partitioning.
>>     
>
> You can create the LVM partitions in the Centos4 install, or manually in
> the console in tty2, if you're confortable with that.
>
> You should then be able to use them in the text mode installer.
Are you saying that I should use the Centos 4.4 install, create the 
partitions, abort that install, go to Centos 5 and tell it to use 
existing partitions?

Of course getting through a text install, I will still have to get X and 
Gnome working...

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Working to put Centos 5 on my old Toshiba Portege 3490ct (256Mb memory). 
> PCMCIA CDrom and Lan card.
>
> After recognizing the video card I get the message about no graphical 
> install available.  Putting on and external monitor does not change this.
Let me quote the Release Notes:

  o The anaconda installer needs at least 128MB of memory to work, and
    will only use text mode if the system has less than 256MB of RAM.

I guess that this is "includig 256MB".

Ralph
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Ralph Angenendt spake the following on 5/2/2007 10:35
AM:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Working to put Centos 5 on my old Toshiba Portege 3490ct (256Mb
memory).
>> PCMCIA CDrom and Lan card.
>>
>> After recognizing the video card I get the message about no graphical 
>> install available.  Putting on and external monitor does not change
this.
> 
> Let me quote the Release Notes:
> 
>   o The anaconda installer needs at least 128MB of memory to work, and
>     will only use text mode if the system has less than 256MB of RAM.
> 
> I guess that this is "includig 256MB".
> 
> Ralph
The installer could be reading your system as less than 256 MB of ram. Does it
have shared memory for the video?
I have installed in 256 M on VMWare, so you could try the linux graphical
( I think ) option.

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Scott Silva wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt spake the following on 5/2/2007 10:35 AM:
>   
>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>     
>>> Working to put Centos 5 on my old Toshiba Portege 3490ct (256Mb
memory).
>>> PCMCIA CDrom and Lan card.
>>>
>>> After recognizing the video card I get the message about no
graphical
>>> install available.  Putting on and external monitor does not change
this.
>>>       
>> Let me quote the Release Notes:
>>
>>   o The anaconda installer needs at least 128MB of memory to work, and
>>     will only use text mode if the system has less than 256MB of RAM.
>>
>> I guess that this is "includig 256MB".
>>
>> Ralph
>>     
> The installer could be reading your system as less than 256 MB of ram. Does
it
> have shared memory for the video?
>   
Oh, yeah. I seem to recall that being the case.

I know that 256Mb works for graphical install, as I did it on a Compaq SFF.

I will go into the bios and see if I can disable the shared memory 
enough for the install.