To Chris-
No I have absolutly no experience editing files. So go flame away. I am a newbie and I
dont understand sue me.
You started somewhere too. Kick me off the list for all I care. Excuse me for not
being a genius.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:00:05 -0500 "D. Stark - eSN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Except I think the fella is using grub.
>
>Chronos:
>
>First off, run this from a command line:
>
>[dstart@fweeble ~]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf
>
>Just the cat part, mind you. If you DON'T have a file called /etc/lilo.conf,
>you installed grub as your boot loader. All of the great advice everybody
>has offered up to this point is for naught. Were I you, at this point, I'd
>say screw it all and reinstall, this time choosing LILO as your boot loader
>(why did Mandrake include grub? freedom of choice?). Were I you. Who knows,
>it may solve the ram issue. If it doesn't then Chris' great advice below
>will work.
>
>You're a newbie, I betcha. Don't worry, we all start somewhere. I was lucky
>enough to room with a net.god in college. I know sending people to
>LinuxDoc.org is my answer to most tech questions, but you might want to
>spend some time reading up here:
>
>http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/gs/
>
>also:
>
>http://63.209.80.231/en/doc/72/en/ref.html/index.html (mandrake users
>manual)
>
>Seriously, a good place to go to keep from killing yourself. If you would
>like a good deadtree guide, check out O'Rielly's
>_Learning_the_UNIX_Operating_System_. It's a very good book to get you up to
>speed on the basics. From there the specifics become a lot easier to handle.
>Make sure to learn to use 'grep' and 'less' as well. They're your friends.
>
>Derek Stark
>IT / Linux Admin
>eSupportNow
>xt 8952
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Spencer
>Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:29 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] ram issue(continued)
>
>
>On 18 Jan 2001, chronos . wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I`m running mandrake 7.1 and I have 128 for ram but it only sees 64 of my
>128. I went to mandrakeuser.org and found the following- edit tittle linux
>kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=dev/hda1 then append mem=128M to the end of
>it. The problem is I type pico then tittle linux and it gives me a new file
>then I type kernel etc. and all it does is places a file in my home
>directory under root. Ctrl W does not work. When I type pico kernel etc. by
>itself it says unexpected token (h and exits. How do I edit this file ?
>There has to be a way to edit this. Keep in mind I`m no genius here so I
>need pretty much exact instructions on what to do. Ie type pico then
>whatever I need to edit the file.
>
>Chronos,
>
>I have seen you post this question numerous times and I've seen people
>answer you with some very good answers. With all due respect, there comes
>a time when you need to think for yourself and work with the instructions
>that have been given to you. You want to edit a file? How would you do it
>in DOS? Typing in 'edit' isn't going to magically open up the file you
>want to modify. Typing in edit <filenamee> will. These are basic concepts
>of computer usuage that, no matter what operating system you are using, do
>the job.
>
>That said I am going to settle this once and for all. If you have problems
>following these instructions then I cannot help you any further.
>
>If you are using KDE or Gnome, login as root; Go to Programs->Editors->and
>pick whatever editor you want. Go to File->Open; Change the directory to
>/etc (ie: if the default is /root, go up a dir level to /, then click on
>/etc). Double-click on the file lilo.conf. About 10 lines down you will
>see something that looks like this:
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hdx
> initrd="/boot/initrd-2.2.17-mdk.img
> append " hdg=ide-scsi ide3=autotune ide2=autotune"
>
>See the append line? No, its not going to look exactly the same as whats
>in this email but thats the line you're looking for. Inside the quotation
>marks INSERT the mem=128M statement. So that now it will look something
>like this:
>
> append "mem=128M hdg=ide-scsi ide3=autotune ide2=autotune"
>
>Do not change anything else. Save the changes and exit the editor. Now
>open a terminal window and type in: lilo and hit your enter key. If you
>get errors you made a typo. Follow the instructions about and fix your
>error. Re-run lilo when done. Once you get no errors, reboot your
>machine.
>
>If you are not running KDE or Gnome, then login as root. Type in the
>command cd /etc. Then type in the command pico lilo.conf. Make the same
>change as described above. Make sure you run lilo after editing the file.
>
>Linux isn't much different than Windows or DOS. Most things work exactly
>the same way. Have you ever editted a file in Windows? Doing it under
>Linux uses the same principles.
>
>-Chris
>
>
>
>
>
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