On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 03:54:15PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 04 April 2013 12:21:47 Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > > I installed 4GByte RAM in my motherboard succesfully. In BIOS I see all the > > 4096MByte, but after booting Squeeze it show me 3,5GByte. I know I should > > install the kernel with PAE - so I > > installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem package and restart computer. > > Why? > > I am running Squeeze with 16GB RAM and have an ordinary kernel. I in fact > have a back-ported one at the moment, but because of my on-board ethernet, > not for PAE. > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ uname -a > Linux Tux-II 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 07:41:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > lisi@Tux-II:~$ > > You don't need a special PAE kernel in Squeeze.
Lisi, you're running a 64-bit kernel. -amd64 rather than the 32-bit -686 kernel that Gáboris running. Gábo, what CPU do you have? cat /etc/cpuinfo will tell you. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130404145822.gy27...@randomstring.org
