On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 2:43 am, Richard Babcock wrote: > I had the exact same problem with the exact same cpu (different mb no > doubt, you couldn't have the pos I have). It turned out I needed more > memory. Not knowing a lot about the mb or the chips I bought I'm still > trying to figure out why two 128mb chips give me 65mb of memory.
I have 128 Mb, but what you say rings bells - I seem to remember reading something about only 64Mb being recognised. > The happy > part is ML 8.2 runs very well and installed flawlessly (keeping in mind > that I only wanted a file server so no heavy graphics or multi-media stuff > is installed). On the other side of the fence is the fact that I shouldn't > be putting money into this old mb and I need a bigger hd anyway so I will > no doubt replace the mb with something that will like my chips, find a used > 20g hd somewhere and only keep the case and it's accoutrements (cdrom, > cdburner, floppy). It was a fun project though! I'm tempted to re-try, but I think you're right that 8.2 may be the best way. The 6Gb disk that I have for the purpose has, I think, a trial installation of 8.1 on it - it turned out that I had a number of dubious hardware points on the case of the machine I tried - so I think I'll use Partition Magic to get rid of the partitions altogether, starting with a completely blank disk. I do have an old linux boot disk (RH5, I think). I wonder if I would be better using fdisk from that? Anyway, it's an excuse to play :) Anne
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