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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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