Mike Barton wrote: > > Hi all! > > I've got a Debian 2.0 system running on a GateWay NS/7000 - 2 200 MHZ > PPros & 256M RAM. My question is how to size the RAM. The machine > currently reports 65M RAM so I assume that I'll need to specify the > actual amount of RAM at startup. What's the best way to do this? Has > anyone come up with a way for the loader/kernel to automatically do > this? > > Thanks > .. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
By default you will only see the first 64MB RAM (See the help in the kernel source make xconfig). To solve this you must simply pass the "mem=256M" parameter to your lilo prompt. You can make this permanent with an "append" line in you lilo config (see mine): boot=/dev/hda compact install=/WIN95_C/boot.b map=/WIN95_C/map vga=normal delay=100 image=/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb1 read-only append="mem=80M" I have read that on some machines you could have problems with 80MB RAM (what a lucky guy am I : have only 80MB 8->). Cheers. -- Robert J. Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AIX Certified System Administrator - Debian Linux addict - Win.\* victim Via Sciangai, 53 - 00144 Rome, Italy
