On 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've
given up the hope of dual-booting for now -- maybe I'll try again
sometime later with 10.04. However, I have 8 gig RAM on my MBP, yet
seem only to be able to assign
You're sort-of right -- I've got it working, now, by booting my Mac into the
64 bit Kernel.
Cheers,
Doug.
On 12 May 2011 17:15, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
On 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac
Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
AFAIK you need to use a 64 bit OS / CPU to use more than 4Gb RAM
Only with Windows, and that's a licensing rather than technical restriction.
'plain' 32bit x86 can address 4GB of memory.
32bit x86 with PAE (which is about the last ten years' worth) can
address 64GB
As per the meeting the other day, there is a plan to go see the SciFi
exhibition at the British Library in London at some point in July/August. If
all goes to plan, we'll all head off for a geeknic in a nice green bit
nearby afterwards, and maybe other bits and bobs too depending who feels
like
