Can't install RHEL5.4 on P4 machine

abhijit.karkhanis · 12-03-2010, 04:57 AM

Hi all,

I have P4 system with following configuration

P4-3.0 GHz
RAM-1GB
Hdd-80GB
Intel Original 945 motherboard

With this configuration i am not able proceed my RHEL 5.4 installation in graphic mode after initialization normal graphic startx process starts and then display suddenly gone. I just wanted to know is that a problem with installation DVD or there is any setting in BIOS.
If anybody has any idea about this please reply me.
and get back to me if require any more details.
Thanx.

kaushalpatel1982 · 12-03-2010, 05:52 AM

Check your video memory. I had once P4 which had the same problem and it resolved by increasing video shared memory.

knudfl · 12-03-2010, 07:30 AM

Some "pentium 4" computers, like Dell GX-260 have a Graphics
chip ( Intel + a 'sub device' ) that only a few Linux will like.

What is your computer name ?
And may be show the output of the command :
lspci -vnn | grep -iA 8 vga

Your issues can also be a monitor problem.

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abhijit.karkhanis · 12-06-2010, 02:18 AM

Hi all,
thanx for reply but some more points.

Reply to knudfl
hi,
My Machine name means what exactly you want computer model name or host name.
if u asking for model name then it is HP Compaq dx6120MT if u looking for hostname
then it is localhost.localdomain

reply to kaushal
hi,
how much is min. video memory required to install RHEL 5.4

mesiol · 12-06-2010, 07:14 AM

Hi,

did you try text install before messing around with graphical installation?

min. required video ram is 1MB.

abhijit.karkhanis · 12-06-2010, 11:27 PM

Hi Mesiol,
Thanx for reply i had tried text installation method but it didn't worked.
can you please help me out in this regards what will be the next step.

Thanx once again,

mesiol · 12-06-2010, 11:57 PM

hi,
what exactly does "textbased installation did not work" mean?

abhijit.karkhanis · 12-09-2010, 12:15 AM

hi mesiol,
text installation did not work means after installation i am not able to start my gui desktop on linux 5.4 (with using startx command).

knudfl · 12-11-2010, 03:16 AM

Why EL 5.4 ? Redhat would not supply an old version.
Current is EL 5.5. And if you have no support contract with Redhat,
you will not get the full functionality.

How about the free version of EL 6. Suggest : Try it out.
32 Bits http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux...ling/i386/iso/

64 Bits
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux...86_64-DVD1.iso

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux...86_64-DVD2.iso
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