RE: Debian RAM supporting.
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Debian RAM supporting.
>
> On 2009-04-02 23:54, Bret Busby wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >
[snip]
> >
> > In that case, as installation disks (I think) automatically sense
the
> > CPU, and install the appropriate kernel for the CPU, does an
> > installation disk automatically find how much RAM a computer has,
>
> It's in /proc/meminfo.
>
> >
and
> > then install the appropriate memory size based kernel?
>
> The CD ISOs are pretty space-constrained. You could file a wishlist
> bug report, but the D-I team would probably prioritize it low.
I could be wrong, but I am pretty certain that the netinstall does this.
At least on the 32bit systems with more then 4GB that I have access to,
I don't remember having to do anything extra special for it to install
bigmem.
> Scooty Puff, Sr
> The Doom-Bringer
Awesome. :-)
Futurama: Always relevant.
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