FC3 - Proliant Servers

[Robert Slade]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 05:19, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> ----- 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.

But it's great at keeping the office warm. I have been using it to play
around with W2k Server. Thought I'd try Linux. 
> 
> 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 

It did indeed, thanks very much. Now I have to get around "Cannot mount
root device "<NULL>" I guess the problem is with the SCSI CD ROM not
being correctly identified. 

Rob