On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> 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
I know that Charles, but I was describing Windoze behavior
in W95 beta. The statement that windoze is prob'ly the worst OS
at managing hard and virtual memory is valid. My implication that
while Windoze is good at running on marginal hardware, this is also
one of the reasons it crashes so much, is also valid. IMO, the
reason Windoze will recognize all installed ram when many other
OS's won't is so that the average Dell user with a lot of 'onboard'
and/or 'win' hardware won't realize he/she doesn't really have as
much system ram available as is 'advertised'.
BUT you're right, I should'a left my opinions out of it ;->
What I failed to remind Tor of, is to run '/sbin/lilo' (as root)
after making the changes to lilo.conf, so that they'd be written to
lilo and take affect on the next boot.
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> ----- 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
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tor Benjaminsen
> > > ICQ: 47228678 Make Money with SlyBoots follow the URL:
> > > http://hjem.cybercity.no/~nfp3382/index.htm
> >
> >
