Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:40:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jonny Pearson <jpearson@rex.lib.uci.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: not recognizing my 48 megs of RAM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113132157.2441A-100000@rex.lib.uci.edu>
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I'm new at this. Please be patient... When FreeBSD 2.2.5 boots up it only recognizes 16M of RAM (we've installed 48M). I went into the kernel file GENERIC and added a line: options MAXMEM=49152 Apparently that is not enough. I found a webpage (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ87.html#87) at freebsd.org that explains how to configure the kernel: "... you need either the complete srcdist or, at the minimum, the kerndist loaded on your system. Once you have the kerndist or srcdist loaded, do the following as root: 1.cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf 2.cp GENERIC MYKERNEL 3.vi MYKERNEL 4.config MYKERNEL 5.cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL 6.make depend 7.make all 8.make install 9.reboot I'm having a problem with the first part. What is the "srcdist" or the "kerndist"?? And where do I get one?? It says that I need to "load" one of the two before I can go through the nine steps. Please help!! Jonny ________________________________________________ Jonny Pearson Interactive Learning Center University of California, Irvine
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