upgrading ram

[Linux_cat]

Hey guys,

Im about to set up a linux server using the latest Debian but have a question about the ram, I cant afford to go with the 2gb option at the moment and am going with 1gb with the view to upgrade the ram next month.

I really want to know how easy this would be to do on Debian, would the os automatically detect it and would the swap size be updated?

If not are their any good sites/guides that would explain how to do this?

[Satanic Atheist]

Yep, Debian will pick it up on your next boot and use. Same as Windows would.

I run Debian (testing) on a P3 600MHz laptop with "only" 320MB RAM and don't have any problems whatsoever. This poor machine has to do so much but still does it so well.

The swap space is a partition on the hard disk and is irrelevant for adding/removing memory (unless you're talking about hard drive capacity). The Linux kernel will allocate the space as it sees fit and is generally out of user control.

James

[je_fro]

swap size should no longer be tied to the amount of ram you have...that rule of thumb is from back in the days when 64MB of ram was a lot. these days, for most purposes, 256MB swap is more than enough.

[Linux_cat]

Thanks guys the next thing is can does Debian have support for Sempron64 processors??

[dkeav]

no, but it has support for x86_64 compliant processors, which sempron 64 just happens to be :D

which would also fall under the kernel area, rather than the "debian" area

[Linux_cat]

cheers guys thanks for the help, got a whole new problem though...

just had the pc delivered and its built on an asus m2n-mx motherboard, downloaded the debian net installer for amd64 processors and booted it up...

the first problem is that it wouldnt detect the onboard gigabyte lan card, so I had to rip out the old lan card from my spider web infested pentium 3 and it worked...

but now it cant detect me hard disk which is on a SATA1 ???, does debian have support for this?? if not if there another distribution that does?

[DrChuck]

I have a similar Gigabyte motherboard using the nvidia GeForce ™6100/nForce ™430 chipset. With Fedora core 6, the sata drives and the LAN worked fine out of the box. I did need to get the latest driver from nvidia, which compiled with no problem, and then the graphics worked perfectly.

drChuck

[dkeav]

which kernel is it booting with?

[teeitup]

Did you try this one...

etch RC1 release (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/ia64/iso-cd/debian-testing-ia64-netinst.iso)

or

current weekly snapshot of Debian testing (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ia64/iso-cd)

or

The Daily build version (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ia64/iso-cd/debian-testing-ia64-netinst.iso)


The complete list (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/)

Good luck,

[Linux_cat]

Right, I have downloaded ubuntu server and installed it on my system, it didnt come with a gui so i gave it the command

sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop

rebooted the system and i get the following error

(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:0d:0
(EE) No devices detected


Fatal server error:
no screens found


at the end of the xorg log file, i can run it without a gui but would prefer to have the option of one on there, the graphics card is a geforce 6100, and im sure thats supported??...help please!!

[dkeav]

sudo Xorg -configure

[je_fro]

to shed some more light on that, man Xorg, then go down around line 107 and look at the -configure option. the new config file will suck, and it'll need tweaking, and will probably be in /root/ or your homedir.

[Linux_cat]

Ive got two config files one at /etc/X11 and the other in my home directory, which one do i need to mess about with??

[je_fro]

make a backup of the one in /etc/X11 and move the one in your homedir to /etc/X11 and start tweaking it.