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Re: Explicitly setting RAM size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Sun Oct 25 01:02:53 1998
To: Andrew J Lynn <alynn@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:09:35 EDT."
<199810250209.WAA02570@cephiro.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:02:46 EST
> So, my question is, how does one do the same (or is there another solution to
> the problem) in NetBSD?
To do this under NetBSD, you need to build a new kernel with
the REALBASEMEM and REALEXTMEM options set to the proper amounts of
those types of memory in your machine. If you haven't rebuilt kernels
before, have a look at /mit/sipb/doc/netbsd-admin.{dvi,ps}; it has a
section on how to do that. The ATHENA config file has some comments
near the REALBASEMEM/REALEXTMEM definitions that help explain how to
use them; the options(4) man page also has some information in the
i386-specific options section.
- Nathan
