Re: [tlug] 4Gb RAM with 32bit kernels

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 05:36:03PM +0900, Kyle Hasegawa wrote:

Jim wrote (got lost in the trimming, somehow)

> >>> My laptop (Compaq Presario CQ60) came with 4G of RAM, but I can only see
> >>> 3G of it (prolly a limitation of my 32-bit system). Is there any way I
> >>> can get at it from Linux for a RAM disk or something like that? Is
> >>> it worth doing?

> It's now the PAE kernel.  2010 versions of Ubuntu automatically install 
> PAE if >3G of RAM is detected during install.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingPAE
> 

Same with Fedora.  One thing that gets people though, is that it won't
automatically installed the correct kernel-devel package though, one has
to specify, if needing kernel-devel, kernel-PAE-devel. 


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