Recognizing Install of Memory

[atc_traffic856]

I use Ubuntu 9.04 and will install extra memory within the laptop, will Ubuntu distro recognize the memory, existing memory =256Mb new memory will be 2g.
After the install where can I go within Ubuntu operating system to see the total quantity of memory?
Thankyou

[mjc]

Pop open a terminal and issue this command...

cat /proc/meminfo

[atc_traffic856]

Thanks MJ I tried your commandsuggestion> and it related >"No such file or directory"
??

[atc_traffic856]

sorry MJ my mistake it was a error on my command syntax>>
thank you for your help