Re: Reporting RAM

2000-02-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, aphro wrote: > its probably best to leave 1MB free when using the append option for most > boards, so tell linux u got 127MB instead of 128 sometimes allocating > every last bit of ram can cause problems(sometimes minor sometimes major). Only if your motherboard is broken. Te

Re: Reporting RAM

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
make sure you got the line right i believe it is: append="mem=128M" been a while since i used it though, the easiest way to see free ram is to type 'free' or cat /proc/meminfo or use top or use dmesg and search for the amount of ram it detects: Memory: 127948k/131008k available (1068k kernel cod

Re: Reporting RAM

2000-02-07 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: > What command will tell me how much RAM Debian Linux thinks I have? 'free' will do it. The kernel publishes the information in /proc/meminfo. > My BIOS, Win NT, and Win 98 all know I have 128M, but Corel Linux > thinks I have only 64M. I've tried adding t