[SLL] 32 bit distro that supports 4GB ram with stock kernel

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Apr 2 09:22:39 PDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:20 -0700, Eric Kahklen wrote:
> 
> I just booted into a Fedora live CD and here is the meminfo:
> 
> [fedora at localhost ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:      3078552 kB
> 
> And here is my CPU:
> 
> [fedora at localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 15
> model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7300  @ 2.00GHz
> 
> 
> It is a T61 Thinkpad so I am wondering if it is a BIOS issue?

Is this a 32bit Live image or a 64bit Live image?  If you boot a 32bit
live image, you're only going to see the CPUs as 32bit...

I'm almost 100% certain that T61s are capable of 64bit OSs.

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