[SOLVED] Howto upgrade from squeeze 32bit to 64, process is 64, & has 4 g ram

Foxbat1155 · 07-29-2012, 02:29 PM

Hello all, I have a Toshiba Satellite A300, it has a 64 bit dual core, also 4 gig ram.

Initially I installed Debian Squeeze i386, and it does not work with the 4 gig ram, only 3, as I can confirm with HTOP.

How should I go about improving this?

Should I install Debian from scratch? In that case which is the correct version?

Should I install PAE? How do I do that?

Thankyou in advance.

craigevil · 07-29-2012, 03:25 PM

pae kernel can use the 4Gb of ram. Install it the same way you would any other package.

or you can do a clean install using a amd64 iso.

Foxbat1155 · 07-29-2012, 03:31 PM

Should I:

Code:

aptitude install linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem

?

Quote:

Originally Posted by craigevil

pae kernel can use the 4Gb of ram. Install it the same way you would any other package.

or you can do a clean install using a amd64 iso.