> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:25 AM > Subject: Re: Debian RAM supporting. > > On 2009-04-02 23:54, Bret Busby wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > [snip] > > > > In that case, as installation disks (I think) automatically sense the > > CPU, and install the appropriate kernel for the CPU, does an > > installation disk automatically find how much RAM a computer has, > > It's in /proc/meminfo. > > > and > > then install the appropriate memory size based kernel? > > The CD ISOs are pretty space-constrained. You could file a wishlist > bug report, but the D-I team would probably prioritize it low.
I could be wrong, but I am pretty certain that the netinstall does this. At least on the 32bit systems with more then 4GB that I have access to, I don't remember having to do anything extra special for it to install bigmem. > Scooty Puff, Sr > The Doom-Bringer Awesome. :-) Futurama: Always relevant. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
