[TriLUG] anyone using yellowdog linux?

[Ian Meyer]

One issue with my old iMac at least, and probably a few generations of  
them, was that the hardware that access the RAM cannot address more  
than, uh, what's 16 megs per physical chip on the RAM. For example, I  
had a 256 MB SODIMM with 4 chips per side. It would only address 128. I  
swapped it for one with 8 chips per side, and it sees the whole 256.

Go figure.

~ian


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On Feb 6, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Ricky Gravely wrote:



> Thanks Mike!  I'm considering bumping my memory up to
> 256 too....do you know if that is the max it will run?
>
> Ricky
> --- Michael Sh <mnh_222 at lycos.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have several G3 iMac's which were given to
>> me...One, a blueberry 266MHz with 256MB RAM, is
>> happily buzzing along on YDL 4.0  No issues thus
>> far. I had an earlier version of YDL running on an
>> original "bondi blue" 233MHz with a trifling amount
>> of RAM and it ran ok as well.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ricky Gravely" <ricky4work at yahoo.com>
>> To: trilug at trilug.org
>> Subject: [TriLUG] anyone using yellowdog linux?
>> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:27:37 -0800 (PST)
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I ran across a cheap iMac G3 and have begun to
>>>
>> load
>>
>>> Yellowdog Linux 4.0 onto it....any comments?
>>>
>>> (other than "what the heck are you doing with a
>>>
>> Mac?")
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ricky Gravely
>>>
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