Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 07:30:14 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@nike.efn.org> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 951026-SNAP and 4megs Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.91.951028072801.16568B-100000@nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199510281200.FAA00169@corbin.Root.COM>
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On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > >> > well... I just thought you guys would like to know... I pulled 4megs of > >> > ram out of a 8meg machine to test it... even though I read the message > >> > about it failing on his machine... and it worked on my machine... right > >> > now I am testing it on my laptop and it reports 639/3328k... and the > >> > install screen came up... so it looks like 4meg does work... > >> > >> Huh! Great.. So now I can tell people: "It *might* work in 4MB." > >> Why couldn't it have just fallen over on your machine, like everyone > >> else's? :-) > > > >sorry :)... also... on my 8meg machine the ram reported was > >640/3456k... just for the record... also... we could say just disable > > Hmmm, I think your 8MB machine has problems. Does the BIOS report 8MB > during it's memory test? nope... when I took out the 4megs memory... it reports 004096 KB... normally it reports 8192 kb... sorry... I was providing a distinction between my laptop and my other machine that I said I took the 4megs ram out of... TTYL... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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