RE: installing sarge on server
OK, could you point me to a resource that would show me how to do this?
Thanks,
-Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Roberto C. Sanchez [mailto:roberto@familiasanchez.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 1:23 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: installing sarge on server
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
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