RH8 install not enough ram

bobbu · 03-07-2003, 04:35 AM

I have 512 m of ram in this Compaq Proliant server, SCCI cd and hard drive array. When I try to install RH8 it starts up for a minute the it stops with the error." you do not have enough ram to install redhat" has anyone had this problem how do I get around it.

membrax · 03-07-2003, 05:34 AM

http://www.kingston.com ... and get some complementary RAM for a very affordable price.

... just my 2 cents.

chandan · 03-07-2003, 07:00 AM

RH8 is working well on my 192m machine(min 128m)
installing in text mode may overcome the problem

JStew · 03-07-2003, 02:09 PM

128 mb of ram is plenty for any kind of install. Is it reporting the correct amount of ram at all?

TexasDex · 03-07-2003, 07:16 PM

Membrant: That's not his problem. He doesn't need to buy any more ram, he's just having a software or hardware problem.

I have Redhat 8.0 with Xfree86 running on a PII machine with 96MB RAM. It installed flawlessly, in full graphics mode no less. 512MB is plenty of RAM.

What else does it say before you get the message?

You might want to try using a Linux boot disk, I don't know if that would make a difference.

JStew · 03-07-2003, 07:41 PM

A lot of these kids who get their mom and dads to buy a 'dreambox' with 512mb of ram kinda think that a box with 256mb of ram just doesnt cut it... too bad they think like that

dabrown · 04-16-2003, 06:49 PM

Common problem. Compaq Proliants have a chipset-enforced "Memory Hole" at 16MB (for option ROMs, more frequently for RAID arrays). So, Linux can't see past the hole, and thinks you only have 16MB. LOTS of posts about that everywhere on the 'net- there's a way around it for install, which is to tell the LILO loader how much is really there:

linux mem=exactmap mem=640k@0 mem=255m@1m

That'll get you installed, but after that, I can't get it to recognize that on boot. RH uses GRUB, which doesn't accept those mem statements.