Re: Ruffian maximum memory and debian
> > Second, in the debian installer guide talk about a problem with more
> > than 521MB for installation and a workaround for this.
>
> Hm, I've never really heard of this. Maybe it's an i386 only problem?
> Does anybody know more?
I think it is a 32-bit related issue - 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 = 4GB. With a
64 bit address space you can have up to 2^64 (18,446,744,073,709,551,616
= 16,777,216 terabytes [16 peta? Don't know about such big greek prefixes
;-) ]).
Greetings,
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