> My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a > message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, > but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with: > > # free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 63384 61728 1656 25776 30420 16084 > -/+ buffers/cache: 15224 48160 > Swap: 64508 344 64164 > > > Why does it only think there is 64M?
Hmm... this is a really FAQ perhaps I should add it.... anyway, for memory above 64M, you need to add: append="mem=96M" to /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo again. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
