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From: Steve Corso <steve@news.netdtw.com>
Subject: Re: memory in freebsd
To: Joe Karthauser <jlk@pavilion.co.uk>
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Hello Joe,

Maybe I can help a little.  Under 2.1.5R (the cdrom), I know you need to 
have a statement like this:

	options         "MAXMEM=1024*128"

This tells the system that you have 128 meg of memory; adjust accordingly.

I SUSPECT that it would be similar for 2.1.0R; check the LINT file in the 
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf directory.  Perhaps someone else who has done this 
with 2.1.0R will indicate if there is something else you need to do with 
that release.

Steve Corso

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Joe Karthauser wrote:

> Hiya,
> 
> I hope that someone's got the time to help me with this one ;)
> 
> This is the state of things.  I was running FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a pentium
> 120 with 32mb of edo (4 pieces of 8mb).  There were problems with the
> Adaptec device driver and so I put in a 2.1.0 kernel which solved the
> problem.
> 
> I've now bought a pentium 200 pro with 82mb of ram (2 x 32mb in bank0 and
> 2 x 8mb in bank 1) which I'm using with the original disks.  The machine
> runs fine, but the OS only recognises 64 mb of ram! ;(
> 
> I've got 2.1.5 on CD and am tempted to start again with this release.
> If I do this will I get the whole 82mb of ram available?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Joe.
> 
> -- 
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