4GB memory

[Tim Tisdall]

  I'm not sure if this will help in your situation, but this worked for me...

  I have my 'installation disc' of Vista as a recovery partition on
the drive.  I wiped off the main partition to put Linux on it, but
then later decided to dual boot.  I partitioned the drive using a
Linux boot disc and was surprised to find that the recovery partition
allowed me to select which partition to write Vista to.  I think I put
it on a partition with 20-30 gb.  Of course, this required that I
delete the Vista partition first...

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The computer I mentioned earlier has arrived.  Vista was rather
>  ungenerous in repartitioning: the machine has a 320GB drive and Vista
>  takes up 20GB but when asked to shrink the partition Vista would only
>  allow that it could give up 135GB.  Defragging didn't change that.  If
>  anyone has suggestions on this I'd be happy to hear them, but that's
>  not my main reason for writing.
>
>  I bought the machine with 4GB of memory (4 sticks of 1GB).  I wasn't
>  surprised to see Vista displaying 3.2GB, although it amuses me to no
>  end that you need 2GB to run it decently and you can't use more than
>  3GB ... that's a pretty small window of opportunity.  But I was
>  surprised to find that Debian testing displays very much the same
>  thing with "free", 3287MB even after I installed and booted kernel
>  2.6.24-1-686-bigmem.  I didn't change any boot params, do I need to?
>  "lshw" lists the motherboard as a "OFM586" made by "Dell," which
>  doesn't sound right, and it does see the 4GB.  The chipset is Intel.
>  I'm hoping there's something fairly simple that I'm missing.  I don't
>  believe there's a limitation in the BIOS, I looked there.  Any other
>  suggestions welcome.
>
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>  Giles
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