Tom
I could not let your Windows memory/resourses statement slide.
The amount of memory you have in your system has no bearing on the amount of
system resourses your OS is using
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Memory
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Hey folks.
> > I have a little problem, I don't know how to solve.
> >
> > I'm having a problem installing memory in Mandrake Linux 7.1 on my
> > PC. It's a 600MHz PIII. 2x128 SDRAM
>
> actually the problem revolves around your motherboard/bios
>
> >
> > When I start Mandrake 7.1 it's tell me there is only 64 ram
> >
> > It's work fine in W2k and Win98
> >
> It's also why any Microsoft OS is bottom of the barrel when it
> comes to managing/allocating memory. They're gettin a little
> better tho. Win95 beta releases would run down to 0% system
> resources in a hour's normal use.
>
>
> >
> > the swap are 248
> >
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> |
> |
> append="mem=256M hdd=ide-scsi hda=ide-scsi ide2=0xd800,0xdc02
> ide3=0xe400,0xe802"
>
> Just add mem=256M to your append line as shown above. Make
> sure to have a <space> between 'mem=256M' and the next item
> 'hdd=...
>
> With certain motherboards/bios you might need to only use
> '255M' as the board needs several 100k for firmware (rare). You
> might still have some memory problems if you have 'onboard' items
> such as video, sound, modem, etc. built into the motherboard. For
> example if you have a built-in video card with 8mb ram, you really
> don't. The 8mb comes from system ram, and then you might have to
> use 'mem=248M' to avoid problems. I don't mean to worry you, just
> be aware that in some cases it's better not to 'force' usage of all
> your ram. Go ahead and try 256 first.
>
> --
> ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > My lilo.conf before it's working like I only have 32 ram
> >
> > boot=/dev/hdg5
> > vga=normal
> > prompt
> > timeout=150
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=linux Mandrake
> > root=/dev/hdg5
> > append=" hdd=ide-scsi hda=ide-scsi ide2=0xd800,0xdc02
> > ide3=0xe400,0xe802"
> > read-only
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=failsafe
> > root=/dev/hdg5
> > append=" hdd=ide-scsi hda=ide-scsi ide2=0xd800,0xdc02
> > ide3=0xe400,0xe802 failsafe"
> > read-only
> > other=/dev/hde1
> > label=Dos meny for Wi
> > table=/dev/hda
> > map-drive=0x80
> > to=0x81
> > map-drive=0x81
> > to=0x80
> > other=/dev/fd0
> > label=floppy
> > table=/dev/hda
> > map-drive=0x80
> > to=0x81
> > map-drive=0x81
> > to=0x80
> >
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > My lilo.conf with append="mem=256" and then the Pc are not working at
> > all.
> >
> >
> > why? and how do I fix this?
> >
> > boot=/dev/hdg5
> > vga=normal
> > prompt
> > timeout=150
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=linux Mandrake
> > root=/dev/hdg5
> > append=" hdd=ide-scsi hda=ide-scsi ide2=0xd800,0xdc02
> > ide3=0xe400,0xe802"
> > read-only
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > append="mem=256M"
> > label=linux Mandrake
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=failsafe
> > root=/dev/hdg5
> > append=" hdd=ide-scsi hda=ide-scsi ide2=0xd800,0xdc02
> > ide3=0xe400,0xe802 failsafe"
> > read-only
> > other=/dev/hde1
> > label=Dos meny for Wi
> > table=/dev/hda
> > map-drive=0x80
> > to=0x81
> > map-drive=0x81
> > to=0x80
> > other=/dev/fd0
> > label=floppy
> > table=/dev/hda
> > map-drive=0x80
> > to=0x81
> > map-drive=0x81
> > to=0x80
>
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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