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Hi There,

I am new to Debian, although I have years in the CentOS arena, and have a question about PAE and RAM.

In CentOS, on 32-bit installations, I installed Kernel-PAE, to recognize RAM > 4GB. This also worked on machines that only had 4GB RAM, to see all the RAM.

I have now installed Etch on a couple of these machines with only 4GB, and have the same issue - that the OS only sees 3.3 GB.

How would I install the equivalent of PAE, with Debian?

Thanks for you patience.

Michael.

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Re: RAM and PAE

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2008-03-11 16:44.

I'm not sure what the difference is between pae and bigmem. Maybe it is the same thing. Anyway, there are linux-images available in the repository with -bigmem appended to the package name.

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Re: RAM and PAE

Submitted by nik123 on Wed, 2008-06-25 16:39.

This may be bios and not kernel. Kernel should see 4G without an issue in default configuration.

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