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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: chaz&diane goodsell <sundown@ezol.com>
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Subject: Re: Easy way to Adjust amount of RAM
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In the last episode (Oct 14), chaz&diane goodsell said:
> I am trying to fumble through my first successful install of FreeBSD
> 4.0. I am installing the OS on a Compaq 2500, with 5 "4.3 GiG HDD"
> 320MG of RAM and dual processors. I'm not ready to tackle the SMP
> yet. I am disappointed with the fact that BSD is only seeing 16MG of
> RAM. Is there an easy way to adjust this setting? All the
> documentation I have seen references MAXMEM. I was hoping there is a
> control file that could be edited VS recompiling the Kernel. Thank
> you in advance for your assistance.

Compaqs have never reported their RAM correctly and always need to have
the correct value hardcoded.

Edit (or create) /boot/loader.conf, add the line

set hw.physmem="320M"

and reboot.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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