[Classic-discuss] Screen goes black during installation

[Gerald Dachs]

> I'm trying to install Tinysofa Classic Server (from bootable
> CD Ceara.i586.iso) on a rather old machine (Pentium w/ 32M
> of RAM).

Never tried with so less RAM, to be honest. I think smallest I tried was a Pentium with 90 MHz and 64 MB RAM.

> The installation is going rather well alas rather slowly. I'm okay
> with that as I can do stuff around the house while the installer
> goes thru the different installation steps. My only problem is
> that if I'm away from the machine too long the screen goes
> black, just like if some screensaver had kicked in, except that
> I can't go back to seeing what's going on with the installer.
> Hitting keys (even CTRL-Fx) does seems to make a difference.

you mean CTRL-ALT-Fx?

Gerald