slow (s-l-o-w) install

[Frank Cox]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:06:25 -0600
Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:

> I assumed that the bios bug meant that the last 64mb of however-much ram you're
> using over 2GB becomes the problem.  However, I haven't tried what you suggest
> yet and will do so to see what happens. 

I just tried "mem=4024M" and the machine is running fine but:

[frankcox at mutt ~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3342416     702628    2639788          0      16480     289760
-/+ buffers/cache:     396388    2946028
Swap:      2031608          0    2031608

I have more ram now than I did with "mem=2G" but I seem to have lost 760mb;
4024-3264=760.

I'm a lot closer to where I want to be, though.

Thanks for sharing your idea!

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