"Gregory S. Hackman" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 and it only uses 64 Mb of the 256 Mb
> installed.  The PC is a PIII (Gateway) with two 2940 SCSI cards.  I'm using
> whatever kernel comes with Mandrake 6.0, I don't know how to figure out
> which one that is.
> 
> Is there an easy solution to this or am I doomed?  I intend to use this PC
> as a major number-crunching workstation so I'd like to use all the memory I
> paid for.
> 
> thanks...Greg Hackman

Add this to the linux section of /etc/lilo.conf:

        append="mem=256M"

Then rerun lilo to install the new options:

        /sbin/lilo

Then reboot.  :(

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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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