On Thursday 28 September 2006 12:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 17:54:03 +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >Your kernel probably is not configured to recognize more than 1GB. > > > > > >- -- > > > > (Somewhat on topic anyway) - I've just ordered an upgrade for my box - 1 > > Gb of RAM included and an amd64 processor - will I need to recompile the > > kernel to get support for all RAM? The debian version I intend to run is > > the Etch (the file debian-testing-amd64-binary-1.iso downloaded today). > > I will make a clean install. > > I am not sure about the amd64 kernels in Etch; you can run > > grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-$(uname -r) > > to see if your kernel has been compiled with HIGHMEM support. The HIGHMEM is not necessary for a 64bit kernel/install it is still needed for 32bit though. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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