On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:57:38AM -0400, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > On 8/24/05, Kretzer, Jason R (Big Sandy) <jason.kretzer@kctcs.edu> 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 -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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