Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-07-29, John Summerfield penned: Thanks M. Ooh! I like that. Can I be "M" from the James Bond movies? Except, you know, younger. You can be any M you like:-) 'cept, probably M & M. [snip] Off hand, I can't think of any impediment to running a RH ker

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-29, John Summerfield penned: > > Thanks M. Ooh! I like that. Can I be "M" from the James Bond movies? Except, you know, younger. [snip] > Off hand, I can't think of any impediment to running a RH kernel on > Debian, unless the NPTL causes problems, and the quickest way to find > th

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-07-28, Jonathan Melhuish penned: On Sunday 25 July 2004 17:57, John Summerfield wrote: Check out Red Hat's download areas for its latest 2.4 kernel. I'm pretty sure the Red Hat Enterprise kernels (those with enterprise in their names as some have smp) suppo

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-28, Jonathan Melhuish penned: > On Sunday 25 July 2004 17:57, John Summerfield wrote: >> Check out Red Hat's download areas for its latest 2.4 kernel. I'm >> pretty sure the Red Hat Enterprise kernels  (those with enterprise >>  in their names as some have smp) support more than 4 Gbytes

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
On Sunday 25 July 2004 17:57, John Summerfield wrote: > Check out Red Hat's download areas for its latest 2.4 kernel. I'm pretty > sure the Red Hat Enterprise kernels  (those with enterprise  in their > names as some have smp) support more than 4 Gbytes. Huh, I thought I was on the debian-user lis

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a machine w/ 6 gigs physical memory. > kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp only recognizes 4G. I unsuccessfully > tried to build a custom kernel with kernel-package and in the process > learned that the 4G limit is due

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a machine w/ 6 gigs physical memory. > kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp only recognizes 4G. I unsuccessfully > tried to build a custom kernel with kernel-package and in the process > learned that the 4G limit is due

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Jason Rennie wrote: Hello, I've got a machine w/ 6 gigs physical memory. kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp only recognizes 4G. I unsuccessfully tried to build a custom kernel with kernel-package and in the process learned that the 4G limit is due to a kernel option. Is there a 2.4.26-1-[36]86-smp ker