>>>>> "PR" == Philip Rowlands <phr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: PR> Give me such a machine and tell you :) Does an ia32 box allow for PR> more than 4GiB RAM? Sure: util3:~> grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.60GHz model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.60GHz model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.60GHz model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.60GHz util3:~> grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 6199364 kB This machine didn't even cost a lot of money to build. Unfortunately I can't reboot it at the moment, but Anaconda does know to install the bigmem kernel without being told so it certainly knows some way to determine that there's a huge amount of RAM. - J<
