On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:45:14 -0600 (MDT) 
 Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.oscs.montana.edu> wrote:

 > bootup.  Since this is the case for me, I tried playing with said
 > variable.  Up to this point, I haven't figured out what units
 > BIOSEXTMEM is expressed in (bytes?  Kbytes?  pages?), and I don't know
 > if it's the size of *only* extended memory, or if it's the total size

As the name implies, it is the size of extended memory.  The units
are Kbytes.  Thus, if you have 128M of RAM in your machine, you would
set BIOSEXTMEM to:

options 	BIOSEXTMEM="(127*1024)"

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