From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 23:17:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24377 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:17:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA24301 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:16:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA25320; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:16:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:16:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Bill Clinton cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory upgrade to Free-BSD In-Reply-To: <34FEB61A.E542AD37@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That realname is going to get you in trouble. On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Bill Clinton wrote: > I have a COMPAQ 866 486/66 DX/2, and I am installing FreeBsd 2.2.5 for > the first time. When I initially loaded FreeBsd with machine had 16 mb > of Ram. I have since added 8 more mb. FreeBsd is showing on 16 meg > installed. What incantation is required to tell FreeBsd of the > additional ram? Are you sure your system recognizes the additional RAM? Check in Setup. > Also, I have built a Pentium II/2 266 Mhz system with 96 mb ram and a > 6.5 gb hard drive. I want to run FreeBsd on it and have it co-exist > with Windows/95. When I installed Win/95 with large drive support, the > support said by choosing large drive support, dual operating systems > were not allowed. Is this a problem with FreeBsd or will the boot > manager handle windows large drive support? Doesn't matter either way, but big disk support may help alleviate possible 1024-cylinder limits. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message