Re: [newbie] Memory not found

1999-08-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I believe you need to give your kernel the boot option: 'mem=256M' Here's the strange thing... my dual-ppro system saw all 192 megs just fine the first time w/o having to add any options. *shrug* John

Re: [newbie] Memory not found

1999-08-26 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I believe you need to give your kernel the boot option: 'mem=256M' Here's the strange thing... my dual-ppro system saw all 192 megs just fine the first time w/o having to add any options. *shrug* John It's a BIOS thing...

[newbie] Memory not found

1999-08-25 Thread Gregory S. Hackman
Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram. When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have something like 64 Mb. The appropriate KDE utility tells me the same thing. Is there some bug in the 2.2whatever kernel that it can't use the

Re: [newbie] Memory not found

1999-08-25 Thread John Connell
"Gregory S. Hackman" wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram. When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have something like 64 Mb. The appropriate KDE utility tells me the same thing. Is there some bug in the

Re: [newbie] Memory not found

1999-08-25 Thread scheck
I believe you need to give your kernel the boot option: 'mem=256M' Richard "Gregory S. Hackman" wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram. When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have something like 64 Mb. The