Ross L. Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 (edited) Well now I seem to on a PC rebuilding marathon. I recently pieced back together my old AMD K6 350MHz, ATI Rage Pro 4MB AGP built-in video, 32MB ram (wish I still had a few PC100 sticks to spare around here -_-), 1.5GB Western Digital Cavier 360000 HD, an old Creative SoundBlaster ISA (very old but it supposedly works), a Ricoh CD burner, and a brand new Linksys Ethernet PCI card. The motherboard is an IBM spinoff of the ASUS P5A-VM, which is a microATX with built-in sound. Basically it's a low end IBM Aptiva built in 1999, with some mods. Here is my dilemna: I went to run the installer and it hung up. I didn't see what the minimum system requirements are, but I am hoping I am slipping just above the bar with this pc. Edited August 7, 2005 by Ross L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Where did it hang? I can imagine it wouldn't be happy with a GUI install with that little ram - did it get that far? And did you burn your CDs at a nice slow speed to prevent bad burns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross L. Posted August 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 The CD's are fine. I have used them several times before. They are Mandrake 9.0 CD's though and I had just made it to the CD's LILO and selected install when it crashed. I just took out my HD from that computer, stuck it in my Win2K pc, and hopefully I will be able to load DSL onto this thing. I would like Mandriva but I have a feeling that my RAM is too low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Try a text-based install: at the prompt, press F1 and then enter "text" as the install option. That should get around the ram problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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