Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:27:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Daniel C. Konnoff" <daniel@mysonusa.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2 release cdrom June 97 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970830202436.544E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970829104107.1446A-100000@paphos>
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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Daniel C. Konnoff wrote: > After looking at the online FAQ and the reference > manual I was unable to answer the following questions: > > 1) After upgrading to 2.2.2 on platform paphos the > system utilities (top, vmstat, etc.) no longer see > 64m of RAM. The bios and kernel boot messages indicate > the opposite however. I build a custom kernel using the > memsize keyword as recommended in the FAQ to no effect. > This did not happen with 2.1.7 stable. Could you be more specific? ``See''ing memory inside of FreeBSD is sort of a moot point since 1) FreeBSD will use all physical memory not used by processes for the buffer cache and 2) the numbers you're seeing could also include swap space. You only really care about memory when swap hits about 75% used :-) > 2) Our disks are split here: first partition windows95 or > winnt and the second partition freebsd. Can we mount the > windows partitions on freebsd and transfer files between > them? (mount_msdos did not work) Please be specific if this > is possible. What type of FS is the Windows95 partition? What revision is your Win95? FAT32 (the default for Win95 OSR2) and NTFS aren't supported. > 3) In general to whom should questions like these be addressed > in the future? Right here, questions@freebsd.org. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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