Using more than 4 GB RAM on Debian etch 32bit

23Aug/082

By default Debian etch 32bit allows a maximum of 4 GB RAM. The limit can be raised up to 64 GB with a single apt-get command / kerenl update:

apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem

That's it, reboot your system and you will be able to install up to 64GB of RAM to your system.

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samrat
May 25th, 2009 - 06:26

i did exactly what u said but my network card doesn’t recognize in new kernel .
aip
May 25th, 2009 - 20:23

Hello samrat

I have tested this with a few boxes and never had any hardware issues.

What type of network card is installed? Could you post the output of “ifconfig -a” ?

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