RE: [newbie] Disappearing memory... and non accessilble CD-ROM

2001-01-17 Thread Allton Paul
is it perchance a cdrw? Allton Paul wrote: tried it, first umount'ed and then mount'ed and still got "Input/Output error" -Original Message- From: Jim Warwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Disappearing memory... and non accessilble CD-ROM

2001-01-16 Thread Allton Paul
I am experiencing "have 256Mb, linux only sees 64Mb" syndrome. I've tried adding append="mem=256M" in lilo.conf and restarted, but to no avail. Is there anything else I can do, it's horrible using 64Mb. Also .. despite using the cdrom for installation, when I'm actually in linux I cannot