Puppy can't use more than 1GB RAM?

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Puppy can't use more than 1GB RAM?

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I don't know if this is really a bug, or I'm doing something wrong. If it is a bug, is it a bug in Linux or in Puppy?

I run Puppy from a multisession DVD, in a computer that has no hard drive. The computer can handle a maximum of 2GB RAM but I started out with 1GB. The "free" command in Puppy's console said there was a total of a little over 900,000 KB of RAM. When I tried to install OpenOffice I couldn't, apparently because Puppy needs even more RAM to do it. Today I added another 1GB stick of RAM. The computer's BIOS says I now have 2,031,616 KB total RAM, but "free" still reports only 905,800 KB total RAM.

Any suggestions?

Later: Turns out there is a kernel option called himem that is missing. See this thread in the developers forum.
[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69321][color=blue]Puppy Help 101 - an interactive tutorial for Lupu 5.25[/color][/url]

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