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At 04:40 PM 10/31/97 -0800, David Greenman wrote:
>You'll
>have to physically pull out some of the memory and/or replace it with
>lower density SIMMs until you've finished the installation and built a
>customized kernel.

Can the kernel know (or calculate) the maximum amount of memory it can 
use without crashing?  If so, it could refuse to register memory greater 
than that amount.