Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Installing CentOS 5.1 in textmode

Need the old textmode installer? No time to kickstart?

Type
linux mem=192M noprobe

at the GRUB install prompt ;-). A system needs > 128MB RAM to install with Anaconda, but will default to the textmode installer if it has < 256MB RAM.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5:52 AM

    linux text

    http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Installation_Guide/s2-x86-starting-bootopts.html

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