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

[Pann McCuaig]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 13:52, Glenn Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:24:31AM -0700, Adam Monsen wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> >> it is possible that their kernel has no HIGHMEM enabled at all by default,
> >> which would be pretty lame.
> >
> >That would be lame! Here's what I see on my Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) laptop:
> >
> >:) [adamm at snax ~]$ uname -a
> >Linux snax 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> >:) [adamm at snax ~]$ grep CONFIG_HIGHMEM /boot/config-2.6.22-14-generic
> >CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
> >CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
> ># CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
> 
> Innnnnteresting.  For the record, I get more or less the same thing (modulo
> order) on my Dapper kernel.  So, that would *not* be lame... 
> 
> (Now the sixty-four dollar question is, do I do my usual upgrade method of
> "build a new clean OS on a new hard drive and suck the home and data
> directories over", or do I take a deep breath and apt-get dist-upgrade the
> thing in two weeks when Hardy goes GA?  It's *supposed* to work....)

Glenn,

It will work, after a fashion, if the recent past is any indication, but
Ubuntu ain't Debian. I can't tell you how disappointing is to have to go
back to "the old way" when apt-dist upgrade just worked starting with
slink. Sigh. Progress.

OTOH, hard drive space is cheap and there are lots of tools for doing
the "sucking" mentioned above.

Cheers,
 Pann
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