[newbie] Checking RAM size

2005-01-26 Per discussione Paul Smith
Dear All How to check one's computer RAM size? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the

Re: [newbie] Checking RAM size

2005-01-26 Per discussione Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 17:00, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How to check one's computer RAM size? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Kcontrol Information Memory Anne - --

Re: [newbie] Checking RAM size

2005-01-26 Per discussione Paul Smith
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:09:48 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to check one's computer RAM size? Kcontrol Information Memory Thanks a lot, Anne. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] dvd-ram disk

2004-11-26 Per discussione Josenildo Marques
Hello! From what I've read, it is possible to write to dvd-ram disks, but unfortunately I'm not sure how I can do that. Any tips, please ? TIA -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/imaginis usuário Linux registrado No. 341648

[newbie-it] Ram drive

2002-09-22 Per discussione ENx
Ciao a tutti, vorrei fare un ram drive, ma non so proprio da dove cominciare. Qualcuno può darmi una mano? Grazie a tutti, ENx

Re: [newbie-it] RAM

2001-07-06 Per discussione Marco Seno
- Original Message - From: CaMiX [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux ML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 4:30 PM Subject: [newbie-it] RAM Ciao! Qualcuno mi saprebbe dire a grandi lineee (molto grandi) come avviene la gestione della memoria in Linux. Chiusa un'applicazione X, ad

Re: [newbie-it] RAM

2001-02-07 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il 22:43, marted 06 febbraio 2001, scrivesti: Dopo aver installato MDK 7.2 ,ho variato la mia ram da 64 a 128 mb.Il sistema la riconosce da solo o si devono cambiare dei settaggi da qualche parte? Ciao e grazie. Io ho appena aggiunto un banco di RAM e Linux l'ha vista subito, al primo

[newbie-it] RAM

2001-02-06 Per discussione Loris
Dopo aver installato MDK 7.2 ,ho variato la mia ram da 64 a 128 mb.Il sistema la riconosce da solo o si devono cambiare dei settaggi da qualche parte? Ciao e grazie.

Re: [newbie-it] RAM

2001-02-06 Per discussione Corrado
Loris wrote: Dopo aver installato MDK 7.2 ,ho variato la mia ram da 64 a 128 mb.Il sistema la riconosce da solo o si devono cambiare dei settaggi da qualche parte? Ciao e grazie. Io non ho avuto problemi, l'ha riconosciuta da solo. Se noti che il sistema nettamente pi veloce, allora li ha

Re: [newbie-it] RAM

2001-02-06 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01.09 07/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: A quanto detto prima, devo appunto aggiungere che io uso proprio Grub Corrado Non difficile. cerca la directory di Grub apri con un editor il file menu.lst ed aggiungi mem=128M ,cmq con Mandrake 7.2, puoi usare anche DrakConf per settare la memoria

[newbie-it] RAM e partizione di SWAP

2001-01-19 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Ciao a tutti, utilizzo una distribuzione Linux Mandrake 7.2 su un PC con 128 MB di memoria. Ho intenzione di raddoppiare la RAM. Devo aumentare anche le dimensioni della partizione di swap? Fino a quali dimensioni? Grazie a chi vorr rispondermi... Daniele

Re: [newbie-it] RAM e partizione di SWAP

2001-01-19 Per discussione Daniele \Keyser Soze\ Surano
CTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:43 PM Subject: [newbie-it] RAM e partizione di SWAP Ciao a tutti, utilizzo una distribuzione Linux Mandrake 7.2 su un PC con 128 MB di memoria. Ho intenzione di raddoppiare la RAM. Devo aumentare anche le dimensioni della partizione di swap? Fino a quali

Re[2]: [newbie-it] ram?

2000-12-23 Per discussione Giga [TechOperator]
- From: Stolf Francesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 7:53 PM Subject: [newbie-it] ram? Ciao a tutti ,sono ancora io che rompo scusatemi ma ho un altro piccolo problemino: i programmi tipo office e anche altri non si caricano è vanno spesso

[newbie-it] ram?

2000-12-22 Per discussione Stolf Francesco
Ciao a tutti ,sono ancora io che rompo scusatemi ma ho un altro piccolo problemino: i programmi tipo office e anche altri non si caricano è vanno spesso in crash da quando è stato installato mandrake 7.2 powerpack ,pochi giorni fa,partizionando il disco e lasciando anche windows(purtroppo devo

[newbie] 128mb ram is detected as 64mb by linux

2000-09-26 Per discussione ozgur cagdas
dear newbies; i have 128mb sdram running on my system. My bios, windows and benchmark programs detect it as 128mb too. but under linux mandrake 7.0 i see it as 64mb. I made a little search and learnt that ive to add line "append="mem=128M"" at the end of my lilo.conf file but it didnt work

Re: [newbie] 128mb ram is detected as 64mb by linux

2000-09-26 Per discussione Mogens Jæger
ozgur cagdas wrote: dear newbies; i have 128mb sdram running on my system. My bios, windows and benchmark programs detect it as 128mb too. but under linux mandrake 7.0 i see it as 64mb. I made a little search and learnt that ive to add line "append="mem=128M"" at the end of my lilo.conf

Re: [newbie] 128mb ram is detected as 64mb by linux

2000-09-26 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
ozgur cagdas wrote: dear newbies; i have 128mb sdram running on my system. My bios, windows and benchmark programs detect it as 128mb too. but under linux mandrake 7.0 i see it as 64mb. I made a little search and learnt that ive to add line "append="mem=128M"" at the end of my lilo.conf

Re: [newbie] 128mb ram is detected as 64mb by linux

2000-09-26 Per discussione Mark Weaver
yes...and don't forget to run lilo from the command line before you reboot. Hmm...I feel kinda funny saying that about linux. The word is so seldom associated with the thing. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed

RE: [newbie] setting RAM (and LILO parameters)

2000-05-17 Per discussione Martin Marier
Thanks to everybody who helped me, I just wanted to add a little comment about "setting RAM". In SuSE Linux (6.2), There has to be commas between parameters in /etc/lilo.conf . Otherwise it doesn't work. How are the other distros ? Is there a lot differences like this

[newbie] setting RAM

2000-05-15 Per discussione Martin Marier
Hello list, I'm having problems letting Linux know that I have 96 MB of RAM (it only sees 64 MB). I tried edit lilo.conf file adding a parameter in the append line : append="hdb=ide_scsi,mem=96M" But it doesn't work. The memory is still at 64MB and /dev/hdb remains an IDE

Re: [newbie] setting RAM

2000-05-15 Per discussione bill
Martin Marier wrote: Hello list, I'm having problems letting Linux know that I have 96 MB of RAM (it only sees 64 MB). I tried edit lilo.conf file adding a parameter in the append line : append="hdb=ide_scsi,mem=96M" append="hdb=ide-scsi mem=96M" ^^

[newbie] Re: RAM limitation?

2000-04-20 Per discussione Walther Silva
To the List: I have an Athlon 550 based system, FIC motherboard with 96 Megs of PC-100 DRAM. I have installed Mandrake 6.5. Why does the system report only 64 Megs of RAM? I've checked the messages file in /var/log, I've looked at the KDE panel and the memory reported is always 64 Megs. Is there

Re: [newbie] Appending Ram

2000-03-12 Per discussione Bob
: Jon Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Appending Ram I don't know if it is too long but perhaps it is the two (2) copies of ide2=0xcc00,0xd002 ide3=0xd800,0xdc02 throwing you off... Perhaps you should copy the linux

[newbie] Appending Ram

2000-03-11 Per discussione Bob
I've read several posts on memory. Linux only recognises 64mb instead of 128mb of my memory. Below is lilo.conf boot=/dev/hde8map=/boot/mapinstall=/boot/boot.bvga=normaldefault=linuxkeytable=/boot/us.kltdisk=/dev/hde

Re: [newbie] Appending Ram

2000-03-11 Per discussione Jon Hunter
I don't know if it is too long but perhaps it is the two (2) copies of ide2=0xcc00,0xd002 ide3=0xd800,0xdc02 throwing you off... Perhaps you should copy the linux labeled area to a new name, remove the second copy of IDE statements. Rerun lilo, boot it, try it, and see what happens... Bob

Re: [newbie] Appending Ram

2000-03-11 Per discussione Lane Lester
Bob said: I've read several posts on memory. Linux only recognises 64mb instead of 128mb of my memory. Below is lilo.conf append="ide2=0xcc00,0xd002 ide3=0xd800,0xdc02 ide2=0xcc00,0xd002 ide3=0xd800,0xdc02 mem=128M" read-only I had to use 124M because my onboard video uses 4M. -- Lane

Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append?

2000-02-15 Per discussione steve . flynn
49 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append? If I don't have it, my cdwriter won't work. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 1

Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append?

2000-02-15 Per discussione Brent Timmer
actually, I had to put append="hdd=ide-scsi mem=256M" Thanks thogh, got me closer - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append? did the append line work for you

Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append?

2000-02-14 Per discussione steve . flynn
6:30 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append? I have 256mb of ram, but linux only shows 64. I got a not from someone telling me to add the line: apppend="mem=256" to my lilo.conf fil

Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append?

2000-02-14 Per discussione Brent Timmer
If I don't have it, my cdwriter won't work. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append? I believe it should be mem=256M Either way, try something like append="hd

Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append?

2000-02-14 Per discussione GECOS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe it should be mem=256M One thing that kept that statement from working for me for a while was my failing to subtract the 4M that my onboard video was using. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel

[newbie] Missing Ram -- Append?

2000-02-13 Per discussione Brent Timmer
I have 256mb of ram, but linux only shows 64. I got a not from someone telling me to add the line: apppend="mem=256" to my lilo.conf file. The probelm is, there is already one there for something else. How do I combine the two(lilo won't run until there's only one)? The I tried to put:

Re: [newbie] Missing Ram -- Append?

2000-02-13 Per discussione Dan Ros
I have 256mb of ram, but linux only shows 64. I got a not from someone telling me to add the line: apppend="mem=256" to my lilo.conf file. The probelm is, there is already one there for something else. How do I combine the two(lilo won't run until there's only one)? The I tried to put:

Re: [newbie] Stupid RAM troubles.

2000-02-08 Per discussione Paul Derbyshire
At 05:45 PM 2/7/00 -0800, you wrote: OK, i had MDK 6.1 on my syatem a week ago, and in my lilo.conf file i added append="mem=128M" to get all my 128M of RAM supported. But now with MDK 7, this does crap, and I still get 64Ms at boot. Running Netscape and other things all at once *deserve* all

[newbie] Stupid RAM troubles.

2000-02-07 Per discussione jerlin
OK, i had MDK 6.1 on my syatem a week ago, and in my lilo.conf file i added append="mem=128M" to get all my 128M of RAM supported. But now with MDK 7, this does crap, and I still get 64Ms at boot. Running Netscape and other things all at once *deserve* all my RAM, but i just cant get it

Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?

2000-01-02 Per discussione Traci Collins
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: with a standard dvd my cd-r just spits them backout. Will it write to a standard cd-r? According to the manufacturer's web page, no. I haven't gotten the drive yet so I'm not sure from personal experience. I suspect I can trust them on this. I think it's safe to

[newbie] DVD-RAM?

2000-01-01 Per discussione Traci Collins
There seems to be a lot of information out there about using the recordable CD formats but I was wondering, does anyone know what is involved in getting started with a scsi DVD-RAM drive? Is there an FAQ or project you can point me to? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer

Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?

2000-01-01 Per discussione Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Traci Collins wrote: There seems to be a lot of information out there about using the recordable CD formats but I was wondering, does anyone know what is involved in getting started with a scsi DVD-RAM drive? Is there an FAQ or project you can point me to? Thanks.

Re: [newbie] DVD-RAM?

2000-01-01 Per discussione Traci Collins
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: _basicly_ it's no different than any other cdwriter. execute cdrecord -scanbus and it should pick it up no problem. You just need to make sure you don't go over the size when you do your mkisofs. Theres maybe a link on the cdrecord homepage to a gui util that won't

Re: [newbie] Major RAM Problem

1999-12-27 Per discussione John Aldrich
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, you wrote: I am having troubles with Linux not recgnizing my 128mb of ram. I added the append RAM=128MB to my lilo.conf, but it didn't work. By the way, this is caldera 2.3. Please help. The line you need to add is: append 'mem=128mb' (Including quotes.) NOT

Re: [Re: [newbie] Major RAM Problem]

1999-12-27 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
Seung-woo Nam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think append line should read: append=mem=128mb Seung-woo Nam === I think you need quotation marks (") following the first = and after the mb. append="mem=128mb" Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13

Re: [Re: [newbie] Major RAM Problem]

1999-12-27 Per discussione Charlotte Welch
Yes, you have to put this line in the lilo.conf file. append="mem=128mb" Then run the /sbin/lilo Charlotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [Re: [new

Re: [newbie] Major RAM Problem

1999-12-26 Per discussione Seung-woo Nam
I think append line should read: append=mem=128mb Seung-woo Nam Payne Stanifer wrote: I am having troubles with Linux not recgnizing my 128mb of ram. I added the append RAM=128MB to my lilo.conf, but it didn't work. By the way, this is caldera 2.3. Please help. Payne

[newbie] Major RAM Problem

1999-12-26 Per discussione Payne Stanifer
I am having troubles with Linux not recgnizing my 128mb of ram. I added the append RAM=128MB to my lilo.conf, but it didn't work. By the way, this is caldera 2.3. Please help. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

[newbie] Linux RAM problem

1999-09-10 Per discussione kkwan
I have a problem with Linux Mandrae 6.0 (Venus). When I boot up my computer, the BIOS reads that I have 65535 K of ram (64 megs). However, when I reach the Shell Log In screen, the system reports that I have only 16 megs of RAM. What's the deal? what do I do to make it detect

Re: [newbie] Linux RAM problem

1999-09-10 Per discussione John Aldrich
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote: I have a problem with Linux Mandrae 6.0 (Venus). When I boot up my computer, the BIOS reads that I have 65535 K of ram (64 megs). However, when I reach the Shell Log In screen, the system reports that I have only 16 megs of RAM. What's the deal? what

Re: [newbie] Linux RAM problem

1999-09-10 Per discussione Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with Linux Mandrae 6.0 (Venus). When I boot up my computer, the BIOS reads that I have 65535 K of ram (64 megs). However, when I reach the Shell Log In screen, the system reports that I have only 16 megs of RAM. What's the deal?

Re: [newbie] Linux RAM problem

1999-09-10 Per discussione kkwan
What's the deal? what do I do to make it detect my 64 megs of RAM? Can you post the output of the 'free' command? Also, try 'dmesg | grep Memory' and send that too. Sure can! (By the way, at the LILO prompt, I can type "linux mem=64M" and it will work just fine, but

Re: [newbie] Linux Ram limits?

1999-04-06 Per discussione G_REEPER
Thanks Steve , The reason i was planning to go with the large ram is mostly for the windows side of the system. There are some tools I use that aren't ported to linux as of yet. i was just concerned that Linux might have a little trouble with it. I will be able to spare room for the

[newbie] Linux Ram limits?

1999-04-03 Per discussione G_REEPER
I'm building myself a system up. I was planning to run 256 megs of sdram in the system. I have always heard that linux can't see over 256 megs of ram. So, my question is would i still need a swap partition? Thanks Steven