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Re: memory probs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willie Twonk)
Tue Oct 27 05:27:51 1998

In-Reply-To: <19981027092405.A29123@adbvdesign.analog.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 20:43:43 +1030
Reply-To: email@ace.net.au
From: "Willie Twonk" <email@ace.net.au>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com

>> I have one single 128MB PC100 sdram in my computer, but when i run linux
>> and run 'top', it only reports 64mb memory...  does anyone know why this
>> happens?
>
><sigh>
>
>Ken,
>
>you definitely need to read up on the FAQs. This question has been asked
>n-thousand plus one times over the last weeks. While the mailing list
>archives are less than usable, this question (and many more) is answered
in
>the FAQ documents. Here are the pointers for future reference:

It's time RH asked the question and made the change during the install.

More and more systems are going to have >64Mb RAM and when they first
install as new RH users they won't have a clue where to look.

Another oversight is Disk Druid not being able to make a partition active
etc.





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