Can you retrofit the non-PAE kernel to a Precise install LiveUSB?

Joep L. Blom jlblom at neuroweave.nl
Thu May 17 22:10:21 UTC 2012


On 17-05-12 14:09, Liam Proven wrote:
> I've tried to install Precise from CD on my IBM Thinkpad X31 laptop.
> It won't boot. Precise uses the PAE kernel and my 2004 laptop's
> Pentium-M CPU.
>
> (Lubuntu works but I wanted to try a clean install of "full" Ubuntu
> first. 11.10 is getting unusably slow on this machine, but then, it
> started out on 8.10&  has been updated through every version since.)
>
> If I make a Precise LiveUSB with the System Disk Creator and then I
> boot it, can I install the non-PAE kernel into that and then boot and
> install from it?
>

Don't use System Disk Creator but Unetbootin. I had nasty install 
problems with Live USB-sticks using System S=Disk Creator:Unetbootin 
works OK.
Joep





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