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Re: Greater than 64Mb of RAM?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hart)
Wed Oct 30 19:27:49 1996

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:25:47 +1100 (EST)
From: Robert Hart <hartr@interweft.com.au>
Reply-To: Robert Hart <iweft@ipax.com.au>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Lance Ware wrote:

> Greetings is having greater than 64MB of RAM under linux a problem?
> 
> I have a PPro200 with 98Mb, and Linux seems unhappy.
> 
> The systems tests it when it starts, but the "free" command
> only shows 64Mb.

At boot time, try responding to the LILO prompt with
	linux mem=98M

This should work and you can then add it to the 'append' line in
/etc/lilo.conf

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