You should be able to get up to about 3.5GB but you are going to lose the rest. Here is an excellent blog post written up on the subject that might explain things better than I ever could. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html
Craig On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Craig Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, > > I have a Dell PowerEdge SC420 with a 2.8GHz intel pentium 4 HT > processor and 2Gb of memory installed. I'm running Ubuntu (installed > 32bit version) and want to know if the version of Ubuntu that I > installed affects the max memory (4BG) I can ultimately install in the > computer. I want to install 4 GB but I was talking to a friend said > that with the 32bit version of Ubuntu the max I would see is 3.0 GB. > What's the deal? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
