On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:13:39PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>>I will soon be installing sarge on a box with a Xeon processor and 2GB of > >>>RAM. Is there anything special I need to know? Does the processor need a > >>>special kernel? Will that kernel recognize that amount of RAM? > >>> > >> > >>The default is the 386 kernel. After install, apt-get the 686 version. > > > > No, don't. Compile your own kernel that has the 4GB_RAM support > > enabled. None of the packaged Debian kernels have it. Without it you > > will only get access to about 900 MB. > > Roberto, your remark "None of the packaged Debian kernels have it" is > incorrect. > > The 2.6 series i686 kernels already have support above 1GB. At least, > the most recent Sarge 2.6 kernel does. > True. It has been so long since I used a packaged kernel, that I was not aware that had changed. Though, that was my primary motivation when I initially migrated away from them :-) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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