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From: Adam Furman <afurman@delsol.sunfire.net>
To: Taufik Islam <tislam@in4.doitnow.com>
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Subject: Re: 128MB ram
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You need to add a special line to your kernel.  The line is
options         "MAXMEM=(128*1024)"

# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
# specified, FreeBSD will read the amount of memory from the CMOS RAM,
# so the amount of memory will be limited to 64MB or 16MB depending on
# the BIOS.  The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of
# RAM, it would be 131072 (128 * 1024).

Adam

Adam Furman    
Assistant System Administrator of United Computer Specialists
afurman@amf.net
Irc Admin of irc.ucs.net



On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Taufik Islam wrote:

> I am thinging of upgrading my ram size from 64M to 128MB.
> Do i have to do anything special ?
> 
> I though I can just shutdown the machine put the extra ram and start the 
> machine and configure the BIOS.
> 
>