On Aug 7, Markus Diesmann wrote > we have Debian installed on a PC with 256MB. However it seems, that > Debian uses only 64MB (according to top and free). Is there a limit at > 64MB? Do we need to set a special kernel option?
See /usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz For PCs, there appears to be no safe way to detect more than 64Mb of memory. You have to specify "mem=256M" as a kernel option (e.g. through LILO's "append" command). HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .