FC3 - Proliant Servers

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Slade" <fedora at bathnetworks.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:06 PM
Subject: FC3 - Proliant Servers


> Hiya,
>
> Just tried to install FC3 on a Proliant 5000 (quad processor, 1GB
> memory) and got a cannot install , you do not have enough RAM message.
>
> I tied the memory diagnostic option and it appears to only recognise 16M
> of memory, but the Compaq diag shows 1G which passes test.
>
> Any ideas? r and I waisting my time. In which case any suggestions as to
> which distro will run.
>
> Rob

I haven't worked with a Proliant that old for quite a while.  Those old EISA 
systems have a really weird memory addressing model.

At the installer screen, type:

linux text mem=1008M at 16M

If that's not it, try:

linux text mem=16M at 1008M

Hope this helps,
Thomas