On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:46, Michael Blandford wrote: > 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? /proc/meminfo will tell you if you have less than 896 megs of RAM in the machine (the -BOOT kernel is built without CONFIG_HIGHMEM). If you care about more than that, /proc/e820info will provide the information. The easiest thing to do, though, is just to use the snippet of python that Chris posted :) Jeremy
