Command/Script to find out what hardware is on machine

[JD Runyan]

On Fri, Jan ,  at 10:00:27PM -0500, Michael Osten wrote:
> Some where in the universe on Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:36:41 -0600
> "Kim Lanners" <list at sme-net.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there a command / program similar to Windows 'Device System' which
> will
> > report all peripherals? I am interested in having Linux report what it
> sees
> > for total RAM installed.
> > 
> > Also, what file do I modify so as to let Linux 7.1 know that there is
> 128MB
> > RAM on the system? Would this be the lilo.conf file? I am very much a
> newbie
> > and if you could be very specific in your instructions, I would really
> > appreciate it. ;)
> 
> First of all, there is no "Linux 7.1".  I'm assuming that you have "RedHat
> 7.1".  To find out how much memory you have type:
> 
> dmesg | grep Memory
> 
> You should not have to specify how much memory you have to lilo in that
> version of RedHat.
> 
>
That does not work in my system, but it is Mandrake, so it may be different. 

i use "free -m" (as in megabytes)

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JD Runyan
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