From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 20 08:12:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10930 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:12:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kaori.communique.net (kaori.communique.net [204.27.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10879 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:12:13 GMT (envelope-from rzig@verio.net) Received: by kaori.communique.net with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:11:27 -0500 Message-ID: From: Raul Zighelboim To: "'Andrzej Bialecki'" , David Greenman Cc: "'David E. Cross'" , "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: 1 Gbyte of ram Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:11:25 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just retested. The floppy does indeed install 2.2.6 with 512 megs, it does not install with 786432K. When I attempted to install with all the ram and failed, I went down to 256 megs to install. ================================================== Raul Zighelboim rzig@verio.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrzej Bialecki [SMTP:abial@nask.pl] > Sent: Monday, April 20, 1998 3:47 AM > To: David Greenman > Cc: Raul Zighelboim; 'David E. Cross'; 'hackers@freebsd.org' > Subject: Re: 1 Gbyte of ram > > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, David Greenman wrote: > > > >BTW. I don't quite understand what's the problem with bounce > buffers - can > > >they be made to work out-of-the-box with large RAMs or can't > they??? As it > > >is now (and has been for some time), the boot.flp dies on machines > with >= > > >512MB RAM, and IMHO this shouldn't happen... > > > > Well, that's interesting since I installed 2.2.6 on a machine > with 512MB > > RAM myself a couple of weeks ago and I'm pretty sure that this was > also > > tested by Jordan prior to the release. Are your sure it doesn't > install for > > you with 512MB of RAM? > > No :-) I was wrong - this is indeed fixed in 2.2.6. I remembered > 2.2.5... > > Andrzej Bialecki > > --------------------+------------------------------------------------- > -------- > abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { > fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } > Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to > fall out." > Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal > opinion. > --------------------+------------------------------------------------- > -------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message