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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:21:26 +0100 (BST)
From: Philip Inglesant <philip@dircon.net>
To: Mike Burgett <mburgett@cmnsens.zoom.com>
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Subject: Re: Kernel build, memory problems
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Thanks for swift response.

Alas, i had it right in the kernel config file, only wrong in my message. 
I expect i'll get a few saying this.

Thanks for pointing out my mistake, but as it happens, it isn't the answer.


Philip


On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Mike Burgett wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:29:01 +0100 (BST), Philip Inglesant wrote:
> 
> >I am running FreeBSD on a Pentium 200 with 128MB ram.
> >
> >I have set "option MEMSIZE=131027" in the kernel config file. Of course, 
> >for this first kernel re-build, i had to have the machine running with 
> >only 64MB ram installed. Then i rebooted on the new kernel, and it saw 
> >the memory no problem:
> 
> I thought that was supposed to be "options	MAXMEM=131072"
> not MEMSIZE....
> 
> --Mike
> 
> 

Philip Inglesant
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