Eerily enough..... Your correct, it does share memory, and a good portion of it. As for upgrading it, I got it this thing in the scarp pile, did enough cleaning and basic troubleshooting to get it operating. I only have plans to use it to teach myself the basic of various Linux systems. My goal is to create an Office document, watch a DVD, play an MP3, get wireless accesss to the Internet on each distro and the scratch it and go to the next distro. It more of a learning toy then a functional computer for whatever it is I do. I have Fedora 7 on my tower that I becoming more and more inclined to use as I escape the clutches from Microsoft. My old tower is starting to look more like Linux bait ever day, I have some programs I haven't figured out how to run on the Linux box. I probably wait until Microsoft hamstrings the XP program in order to force me to go to Vista. The Dell Laptop I have will keep the Microsoft program on until my warranty expires then, It going Linux the next day

Good book to read, should be the lug mantra

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg246380.html

I suspect that the Thinkpad laptop is using shared video memory with system RAM. You might be able to reduce the amount of shared video RAM in the BIOS to allow the install to complete. Additionally, adding system RAM would be a good idea to enhance system performance especially for Fedora Core 6 or Fedora Core 7.

A smaller footprint distro might also be a workable solution as described below in the prevoius post.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Jeffrey A. McCright, A+ 816-210-3107