RE: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-07 Thread Juan Carlos Avila Sanchez
> > Awesome. :-) > > Futurama: Always relevant. > > Just recently saw episode where Fry is his own grandfather. > Almost as good as Red Dwarf. :) > > -- > Chris. > == Have you ever read Heinlein's All You Zombies?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 07:14:46AM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > > Scooty Puff, Sr > > The Doom-Bringer > > Awesome. :-) > Futurama: Always relevant. Just recently saw episode where Fry is his own grandfather. Almost as good as Red Dwarf. :) -- Chris. == I contend that we are both at

Another solution (was Re: Debian RAM supporting.)

2009-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-03 13:08, Stackpole, Chris wrote: [snip] The long... So I mentioned this to my coworker. He too thought the net-install picked up the bigmem kernel. We have a dev box (Pentium D, 8GB memory, 64bit install) that isn't being used at the moment so we yanked the harddrive and dropped in a

RE: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-03 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Stackpole, Chris [mailto:cstackp...@barbnet.com] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:30 PM > Subject: RE: Debian RAM supporting. > > > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] > > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:11 PM > > Subject: Re: Debian RAM suppor

RE: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-03 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:11 PM > Subject: Re: Debian RAM supporting. > > On 2009-04-03 07:14, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > >> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] > [snip] > > > > I could

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-03 07:14, Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] [snip] I could be wrong, but I am pretty certain that the netinstall does this. At least on the 32bit systems with more then 4GB that I have access to, I don't remember having to do anything extra spe

RE: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-03 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:25 AM > Subject: Re: Debian RAM supporting. > > On 2009-04-02 23:54, Bret Busby wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > [snip] > > > > In that case, as ins

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-02 23:54, Bret Busby wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote: 2. the response above indicates that yes, 4G (and maybe more) RAM can be used with 32 bit CPU's and 32 bit OS, with (what I understand to be, basically) a software patch to allow access to the memory that lies o

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote: 2. the response above indicates that yes, 4G (and maybe more) RAM can be used with 32 bit CPU's and 32 bit OS, with (what I understand to be, basically) a software patch to allow access to the memory that lies outside the limits of a 32 bit OS, but usi

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 2. the response above indicates that yes, 4G (and maybe more) RAM can be > used with 32 bit CPU's and 32 bit OS, with (what I understand to be, > basically) a software patch to allow access to the memory that lies outside > the limits of a 32 bit OS, but using that patch has its own problems, and

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Justin The Cynical
Bret Busby wrote: And, from that, and, the material that has so far been posted, my understanding is: 1. the original poster actually has 4 x 64 bit CPU's in his server that he was asking about, and 2. the response above indicates that yes, 4G (and maybe more) RAM can be used with 32 bit CPU's

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Justin The Cynical wrote: Question was can it be done with a machine that has 32bit processors. Answer was yes it can be done with a bigmem kernel, but there are potential compatibility problems, here are a few other major operating systems and environments that have pr

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Justin The Cynical
Andrei Popescu wrote: *snip* The one starting with "Personally, I think..." and ends with enumerating compatibility issues with some other OSes? My point was that PAE isn't exactly the best idea out there, there are known issues with it (the list of other operating systems and environments

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,02.Apr.09, 11:32:26, Bret Busby wrote: Search for PAE for more info if you are interested. Personally, I think you would be better off finding a 64-bit Xeon for that machine (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12028_div/12028_div.html lists it as an

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-01 22:57, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:32:26AM +0800, Bret Busby (b...@busby.net) wrote: http://www.acer.com.au/acer/product.do?link=oln23g.redirect&changedAlts=&kcond5e.c2att92=853&CRC=1165838950 , "A 64-bit operating system is required to enjoy the ultimate pe

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:32:26AM +0800, Bret Busby (b...@busby.net) wrote: > http://www.acer.com.au/acer/product.do?link=oln23g.redirect&changedAlts=&kcond5e.c2att92=853&CRC=1165838950 > > , > "A 64-bit operating system is required to enjoy the ultimate performance > of 4 GB memory" > > So, d

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,02.Apr.09, 01:45:33, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Justin The Cynical wrote: Daniel Suleyman wrote: Dear ALL. I have HP proliant DL380 G4 with 12 GB ram. I want to install debian lenny on it. Orocessors are 32bit. Installing debian f

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Personally, I think you would be better off finding a 64-bit Xeon for that > machine > (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12028_div/12028_div.html > lists it as an option). PAE is somewhat of a hack IMO, and there are known > incompatibilities with some operating systems (FreeBSD, So

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,02.Apr.09, 01:45:33, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Justin The Cynical wrote: > >> >> Daniel Suleyman wrote: >>> Dear ALL. >>> I have HP proliant DL380 G4 with 12 GB ram. >>> I want to install debian lenny on it. Orocessors are 32bit. >>> Installing debian from standard small cd deb

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Justin The Cynical wrote: Daniel Suleyman wrote: Dear ALL. I have HP proliant DL380 G4 with 12 GB ram. I want to install debian lenny on it. Orocessors are 32bit. Installing debian from standard small cd debian-500-i386-netinst.iso will allow me to use whole 12 GB or additi

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:09:30PM +0500, Daniel Suleyman (danik...@gmail.com) wrote: > model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz [...] > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge > mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm > pni moni

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Daniel Suleyman
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz stepping: 1 cpu MHz : 3201.875 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings: 2 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 04:49:44PM +0500, Daniel Suleyman (danik...@gmail.com) wrote: > Thank you for information i'll check it. > It 1-2 years old, server is in colocation, i cant easy check it. I'm pretty sure it's some Xeon and can run 64-bit OS just fine. > is there any way to check which p

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Daniel Suleyman
Thank you for information i'll check it. It 1-2 years old, server is in colocation, i cant easy check it. is there any way to check which processor installed in debian? 2009/4/1 Ron Johnson : > On 2009-04-01 00:33, Daniel Suleyman wrote: >> >> Dear ALL. >> I have HP proliant DL380 G4 with 12 GB ra

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-01 00:33, Daniel Suleyman wrote: Dear ALL. I have HP proliant DL380 G4 with 12 GB ram. I want to install debian lenny on it. Orocessors are 32bit. Installing debian from standard small cd debian-500-i386-netinst.iso will allow me to use whole 12 GB or additional setup will be needed?

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Justin The Cynical
Daniel Suleyman wrote: Dear ALL. I have HP proliant DL380 G4 with 12 GB ram. I want to install debian lenny on it. Orocessors are 32bit. Installing debian from standard small cd debian-500-i386-netinst.iso will allow me to use whole 12 GB or additional setup will be needed? If you only have a 3

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-01 Thread Juha Tuuna
Daniel Suleyman wrote: > Dear ALL. > I have HP proliant DL380 G4 with 12 GB ram. > I want to install debian lenny on it. Orocessors are 32bit. > Installing debian from standard small cd debian-500-i386-netinst.iso > will allow me to use whole 12 GB or additional setup will be needed? > Thank you in

Debian RAM supporting.

2009-03-31 Thread Daniel Suleyman
Dear ALL. I have HP proliant DL380 G4 with 12 GB ram. I want to install debian lenny on it. Orocessors are 32bit. Installing debian from standard small cd debian-500-i386-netinst.iso will allow me to use whole 12 GB or additional setup will be needed? Thank you in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema