FC5 X86_64 Installation on HP Pavilion ZV6130US Laptop (blind post)

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:54 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> On Mon, April 24, 2006 2:52 pm, Rick Stevens said:
> > If anyone else out there is having problems with Anaconda crashing
> > during a GUI install of FC5 on the above laptop, make sure you go into
> > the BIOS of the machine and set the video system to use the sideport
> > memory ONLY!  If you have the system set up to use either system memory
> > or system memory+sideport, anaconda (well, python actually) will have
> > a problem and crash.
> >
> > Once the system is installed, you can go back to using system-only or
> > system+sideport memory.  System-only memory is needed if you use
> > nVidia's binary video driver.
> >
> > Just thought I'd toss that one into the pile.
> 
> [ anyone got a match? But please, no A&M engineering students. ]

Heheheh!  You know how them Aggies are! (he smartly says as a USC
alum).

Oh, and that caveat also holds true for ATI chipsets--make sure it's
on sideport only during install.

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