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> Hi,

Hi.

You probably wanted "questions@freebsd.org", not "hackers@freebsd.org".

> My pentium 90 has 96 Mb Ram ..... why the FreeBSD 2.0
> does not recognize more then 64Mb ram ?

Because your CMOS can only contain a value up to 64MB, and there is no
other standard interface for determining the amount of RAM present.

> Is There any kernel parameter to increase the max visible
> ram?

Yes.  See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for details on the actual option.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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