Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!
> My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a
> message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing,
> but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with:
>
> # free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 63384 61728 1656 25776 30420 16084
> -/+ buffers/cache: 15224 48160
> Swap: 64508 344 64164
>
>
> Why does it only think there is 64M?
Hmm... this is a really FAQ perhaps I should add it....
anyway, for memory above 64M, you need to add:
append="mem=96M"
to /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo again.
HTH,
Matthew
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