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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14/06/10 23:16, Roland Tarver wrote:
>
>> Hi Rob :-)
>>
>> That also sounds a good way of trying distro's out. Again...a
>> conversation for another occasion. Perhaps I can have a chat to you
>> and Gordon at a meeting in the near future. I do think user data on a
>> separate partition sounds sensible though? If nothing else for backup
>> purposes and assuming the pitfalls Simon mentions are not too bad. We
>> shall see...
>>
>
> No problem, it's easy enough to install and setup.
Cool - Thank you :-)
>> My laptop (my main machine) should be up to the job I think?
>> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz; with 4GB of RAM, although
>> I am running 32-bit Ubuntu so I guess only 3GB is addressed?
>>
>
> That'll be more than enough to run it. I'm running Virtualbox on a 2GHz
> Core 2 Duo and it works fine.
>
> You'll probably find that Ubuntu (at least 9.04 and higher I think) will
> detect you have 4GB ram and install the pae kernel which allows you to use
> the full 4GB (although you're limited to 4GB per process AFAIK, but hey if
> you only have 4GB ram it's not a problem).
>
> If you enter:
>
> free -m
>
> in a terminal it should tell you how much memory you have available...
>
> Here's my output...
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 3956 2508 1447 0 165 1419
> -/+ buffers/cache: 923 3032
> Swap: 487 0 487
>
> Rob
I am still using Ubuntu 9.04. With the following memory...
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3022 583 2438 0 21 247
-/+ buffers/cache: 314 2707
Swap: 8895 0 8895
hmmm - No 4GB for me then. Not a huge problem at the moment. I really
struggle to use > 2GB for my uni work (which is great). Will revisit
this when and if I/we install virtual box.
I am not sure if it has any bearing or not, but cat /proc/version returns...
Linux version 2.6.28-19-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3
(Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #61-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 26 23:35:15 UTC 2010
Many thanks
Best wishes
Roly :-)
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