Hello Glenn, grep -i MemTotal /proc/meminfo |espeak will give you the size in kilobytes. To hear only the number of kilobytes: grep -i MemTotal /proc/meminfo|sed "s/[^[:digit:]]//g"|espeak Cheers, Didier -- Le 08/01/2023 à 22:12, K0LNY_Glenn a écrit : > Hi All, > I'm trying to set up a system on an old computer. > I have an Intel NUC and I put a stick of RAM into it and a new HD, and I > booted to Ubuntu 18.04 that has Chirp software on it. > My plan is to install that old Ubuntu with Chirp, because the new Chirp is > no longer accessible, I think because of it using flatpak, so if I want to > use Chirp, it's likely on an old Linux that isn't using Python 3. > > I put in the memory and drive, but I don't know how much RAM that particular > stick is, it could be 1, 2, or 8 GB. > When I start Orca, it starts and then closes out. > I can open the terminal and do espeak, such as echoing its IP address with > hostname -I | espeak > I was hoping to SSH into it, but SSH may not be installed, but this version > of Ubuntu is too old to get anything from a repository. > But if I can find out the amount of RAM I installed, I might be able to > determine if I need to try another stick of RAM, because I'm guessing that > if it is just a 1 GB RAM, maybe that is why Orca is starting and stopping. > So, my question is, > Is there a command that I can pipe the output to eSpeak to hear the > information on how much RAM there is? > Like I did with the hostname -I command. > Thanks in advance. > > Glenn > >
