Dave Ewart wrote: > On Saturday, 10.12.2005 at 13:50 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:thresh]$ uname -a >>>>Linux threshnet 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 >>>>GNU/Linux >>>> >>>>Hal >>> >>>You can't get more than about 900 MB of accessible RAM with that kernel. >>> I'm sorry for not being clear, but I think that the stock Debian >>>kernels were 4 GB enabled starting with 2.6.11. So, you would need to >>>be using a kernel from Etch or Sid. Alternatively, you can roll your own. >>> >>>-Roberto >> >>Arrggghhh! (Not at you -- just at the thought of rolling my own kernel -- >>for >>some reason, I have *never* gotten a kernel I compiled to work properly!) > > > You don't need to: install the stock *686* 2.6 kernel from Sarge: that > has high memory support. The image is: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 - you > currently have kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 which is the 2.6 *installation* > (i.e. 'safe') kernel. > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > > should do the trick. > > Dave.
Good catch. I didn't even notice that. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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