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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:18:14 -0700
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE will not install on Everex laptop 
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At 02:52 AM 3/17/2000 , Sheldon Hearn wrote:

>The kernel option MAXMEM can be used to limit the amount of memory
>FreeBSD will use.

How can this be set when the install disc first boots?

>   It's probably worth making sure you don't have crazy
>memory settings in your BIOS options.

First thing I thought of. The BIOS doesn't allow any changes, but
what it reports looks fine.

--Brett



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