[Classic-discuss] Screen goes black during installation

[David Chancogne]

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Gerald Dachs wrote:
>> 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.

Yes, it will be interesting to see if the install can complete
and how the server performs afterward. I'm planing in using it
as a very simple web+mysql server.


>> 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?

Yes.


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/David
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