Once upon a time, Michael Blandford <mlblandf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Can anyone suggest a reliable method of detecting the amount of memory > is in an ia32 machine during the install when it is running the -BOOT > kernel? Let anaconda figure it out for you! :-) %pre ram=`python <<EOF import sys sys.path.append('/usr/lib/anaconda') import iutil sizekB = iutil.memInstalled(1) print sizekB EOF ` I think it uses the proper methods, whatever they may be. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.