Re: Squeeze X86 with 4GByte RAM?
On Thursday 04 April 2013 12:21:47 Gábor Hársfalvi wrote:
> I installed 4GByte RAM in my motherboard succesfully. In BIOS I see all the
> 4096MByte, but after booting Squeeze it show me 3,5GByte. I know I should
> install the kernel with PAE - so I
> installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem package and restart computer.
Why?
I am running Squeeze with 16GB RAM and have an ordinary kernel. I in fact
have a back-ported one at the moment, but because of my on-board ethernet,
not for PAE.
lisi@Tux-II:~$ uname -a
Linux Tux-II 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 07:41:30 UTC 2012 x86_64
GNU/Linux
lisi@Tux-II:~$
You don't need a special PAE kernel in Squeeze.
Lisi
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