Hi,
Jeff and Slugs in general,
Thanks
for the replies,
Yes
the memory problem is fixed. The system is a Compaq pentium 166 and it is
running with 3xSIMMS at 96Mb.
This
is possible on some configurations. There has been a lot of talk about systems
needing pairs on Pentium systems but that is only true on some motherboards -
not all of them. Most probably the BIOS software makes it that way. Anyway i've
had heaps of Pentium machines with odd numbered simms even down to
one.
I've
posted a reply about debian not recognising the memory but as the problem is
with our email system then maybe the email didn't get through. I put the line
append="mem=96M" in the "correct" area of lilo.conf and away it went. However
we're still having problems with this email box. I'm not surprised as it was
running qpopper/exim with 32Mb memory and 350-400 users! 96Mb is all it
will take.
Blessed thing still chugging away 4 years or so since it was first built
by someone long gone. I'm not surprised it's having a bit of trouble now as it
probably had only a dozen users when first built. Slowly over time people have
added users to it and it still has been chugging away.
They
are thinking of putting in either Exchange/Notes/Groupwise as their email
solution. Why not Linux! Anyway i'm building a new box with Postfix at the
moment to see how it handles it. There is still the impression that "where do
you get support from Linux if no one owns it?" type of thing. As I point out
there are heaps of Linux savvy people and companies around that can support it.
Trouble is Linux is unheard of by the "IT steering committees". They have only
heard about Exchange and Notes. Linux needs to get some credibility with the
committees and bean counters before it has a serious look in. How do you do
that?
Ben
