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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!ankh.iia.org!haven.ios.com!rashid From: rashid@haven.ios.com (Rashid Karimov ) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 2.1Development and >64M RAM - WORKS ! Date: 6 Feb 1995 05:38:00 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Lines: 47 Message-ID: <3h4cjo$509@ankh.iia.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.ios.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi folx, Few days ago I asked a Q here about Free2.0 and PC with 124Mb RAM on board. David@root.com was the only one who answered ( looks like the problem is not typical yet ). As I got from his answer 2.0R was not supposed to work with more than 96M w/o modification (I wasn't able to make it run with more 64M anyways ) , due to some kernel structures ( page map ? )limitations , but he also said that 2.1 will be free from this sad limit. So I grabbed the latest SNAP ( 020294) from freefall and upgraded my 2.0R. The upgrade , as well as the installation , was a breeze ( thank you Jordan ). Gateway's brain-dead BIOS reported only 64M on-board , as well as MICRON one , so I had to repeat my old trick with fake routine, which reports REAL amount of RAM just by stupid statement like extmem = 132090 ( something like this , the idea is to report 128M). And guess what ? It works ! This is safe enough , since kernel init code checks all the reported memory up to the first bad page , so if someone doesn't like rebuilding the kernel every time he adds more memory , it's possible to set this to, say , 512M :) Well , so if someone will need details - drop me a line ... And ... the 020295 SNAP is actually 2.1 ( it's explicitly stated in the kernel). So grab it ASAP , folx :) , don't wait till March 1 . I'm going to put it under _heavy load in the nearest future (server with 50-70 users on-line,plus FTP/HTTP/NEWS),and I'll write here how it'll work. Till now it's pretty stable , no problems with compiling ... -- ==== SY RK