On Wed, 20 May 1998, Pierre Camps wrote:
> Hello all,
> One year ago, I've installed the 3.2 Slackware distribution (kernel 2.0.29)
> on my pentium 133 Mhz using 32M of EDO RAM (8M at rows 0 1 2 3).
> Today, I would like to increase the RAM capacity by adding 32M at rows 0
> and 1. I mean, 32 + 32 + 8 + 8 = (80M).
> I've read on the "HOWTO memory" that beyond 64M I have to add the following
> line into my lilo.conf file:
> append = "mem=80M".
Did you RE-INSTALL Lilo
Cheers,
Chaiiya
> Even if I did this and the BIOS finds the 80M, free command returns only
> 64M. What's going wrong?
> Another one point: initially, I've configured a swap partition of 18M. I'm
> wondering if this is enough. Should I create a new swap partition or
> increase the capacity of the existing one?
> Thank you for your comments.
> Yours sincerely. Pierre.
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