Detecting increased RAM in Debian Sarge

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Meng Cheah wrote:

>> $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep HIGHMEM
>> 
> /proc/config.gz does not exist in my system.
> My kernel is 2.6.8-2-386.

Look at /boot/config-2.6.8-2-386.  The copy under /proc mentioned above is 
the copy of the running kernel whereas the copy under /boot is a reference 
allowing you to recreate a kernel with the same parameters.  Unless you've 
reconfigured and recompiled your kernel and copied the new config back to 
this file it will be equivalent to what is running.

You're running the default install kernel btw.  A packaged kernel designed 
for your architecture may well have HIGHMEM set already.

Checkout the packaged kernels available here:

aptitude search kernel-image

Read up, keep recovery media handy, and maybe talk to us before upgrading 
the kernel.

Cheers,

Rob

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