4GB memory

[Tyler Aviss]

I think most knoppix discs come with QTParted. I used to use that with
quite a lot of success when resizing NTFS/FAT32 partitions.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:05:55AM -0400, Giles Orr 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.
>
>  Partition magic and gparted can both work around that, as long as you
>  then fix the boot sector with the recovery console afterwards (this
>  means you have a real windows DVD, like either a real install disk or
>  the upgrade anytime (or something) DVD).
>
>
>  > 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.
>
>  To get more than 3.2GB you need to enable remapping of the extra ram
>  above 4GB (memory hoist or whatever they called it on some systems).
>  Check the BIOS, it should have a setting for it on most systems.
>
>  Now if it is a Dell, then there may not be a BIOS option since they
>  aren't big on those. :)
>
>  --
>  Len Sorensen
>
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