Guest Valduare Posted October 15, 2007 Report Share Posted October 15, 2007 i rightclick my usb drive in devices and hit properties and it says i only have 68 megs total memory (ram) to use i cant download anything barly with that small ammount. how do i increase it. my laptop has about 256 megs of ram total. and i have a 2 gig usb drive that im booting from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted October 15, 2007 Report Share Posted October 15, 2007 Don't worry about it. While the amount of physical ram you have is a bare minimum, Linux should handle all ok. Just leave Linux to do its thing. It does not use memory in the same way as Windows does. Thinking Windows and Linux do things the same way is a huge mistake. I would strongly suggest that you at least double your physical memory but mainly for faster response. Let's face it, memory is pretty cheap now days. By the way I think you have got things wrong. When you right click on your USB drive in Devices you are NOT shown Memory. What you are shown is the size of your USB drive, its installed data and free space. It cannot show you memory from that position. I just checked with my USB drive to prove it. Cheers. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted October 15, 2007 Report Share Posted October 15, 2007 i rightclick my usb drive in devices and hit properties and it says i only have 68 megs total memory (ram) to usei cant download anything barly with that small ammount. how do i increase it. my laptop has about 256 megs of ram total. and i have a 2 gig usb drive that im booting from. Two possible reasons as my guess: a) Your USB drive is partitioned and your only seeing a small part of it. Is it the same USB drive you're booting from? Then you should not wonder why... b) Some of your Laptops memory will probably be used for GFX display (check BIOS settings). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 15, 2007 Report Share Posted October 15, 2007 Check your RAM typing in a terminal free This will show you the RAM that you have in total, as well as buffered, used and cached RAM. And I second John. What you are shown must be the disk-space (used and unused), not RAM. If you want to free up space on the usb-drive, then burn some stuff that you don't need day in and day out to CD/DVD and remove old logfiles and such stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest satkinsn Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 A related question from a new - and delighted - MCN user. When I decided to move my MCN boot from a 2 gig key to a new 8 gig key, I went thru' the usual, including setting the loopback to retain changes. The live cd would only let me use about 2 gigs of the eight gig total, and when I right click on the device, it shows a total of 2.4 gigs for space, and 160 megs free. I'd like to be able to use the full eight gigs, but am not sure if I can, at this point. Thoughts? Scott Atkinson Watertown, NY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 (edited) Scott, you should be able to use the remaining free space on the flash drive, outside of the loop image, as normal storage space. You can access and write to it under /mnt/<somewhere> You can store all files, documents etc there. Only added software/programs and settings etc are useful in the loop image. We have limited - in the wizard - the loop image size to 2 GB. I did not think of people with 8 GB flash drives. You could edit the script to give you a larger option (though you would need to create a new loop image). /usr/local/bin/mkmcnlive-loop Search for the term: max-value=$MAX Replace $MAX with your size, in MB, example: 3 GB would be: 3000 ('max-value=$MAX' shows up twice in the script, for the vfat and ext3 filesystem options) --chris Edited October 19, 2007 by chris:b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest satkinsn Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Thanks, Chris. As usual, I need to slow down and think before asking for help. s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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