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Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem



On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote:
> I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2
> processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with
> a KDE desktop. My  present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From
> reading, I think I need to change the kernel to the bigmem version
> but all of the packages shown are for much older versions (or they
> seem to be). If I install the linux-image-686-bigmem dummy package
> will it automatically pick the latest kernel version or not? If not
> what do I do?
>
> Note: Reason for doing this; cheap used parts that turn a bucket of
> bolts into a reasonably useful system.
>
> Gary R.

old naming=bigmem, new naming=pae, both the same.

-- 
Peace,

Greg


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