Re: Kernel upgrade on remote server -- DONE

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

David De Graff said:
> Wow.
>
> After remembering that both ReiserFS and DAC960 support are built into
> the kernel now, I decided to take a chance and do this:
>
> apt-get -t testing install kernel-image-2.4.19-686
>
> After carefully following the package's config instructions (displayed
> automatically), I rebooted and the box came back up with a new kernel -
> and without a hitch!
>
> I'm sure this is old hat to Debian veterans, but I'm IMPRESSED.
>
> Now I just need to figure out why the OS still doesn't recognize the full
> 1GB of RAM in the machine - I wonder if this kernel was compiled without
> himem support.

what does 'free' say? from one of my boxes with 1GB ram(2.2.19):
            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        970932     935060      35872     261600     504092     146920
-/+ buffers/cache:     284048     686884
Swap:      2000052          0    2000052

from dmesg:
Memory: 970868k/983040k available (1544k kernel code, 428k reserved, 10136k
data, 64k init)