Non-PAE kernel in 12.10

[Liam Proven]

On 26 February 2013 06:05, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 26/02/13 09:09, Ric Moore wrote:
>
> [prune]
>
>> I have an R-32 that I have beat the Dickens out of, to get something to
>> install. So, I put 10.4 on it, ignored the non-existent updates and did
>> several dist-upgrades in succession. So, it's now running 12.04.
>
> Eh, your choice of course - and your self-imposed purgatory.

No, not really. E.g. I used to have a Dell 600SC server that could not
boot 10.04 Server - after much faffing and much Googling I discovered
that this was a known problem and the only workaround anyone had found
was to install 8.04 and update. I did this and it worked flawlessly.

> You're using
> the wrong distro. OpenSUSE, for example, during installation recognises
> which kernel you need[*] and installs it.

Well, I am not going to automatically disagree, but I was a SUSE user
for many years - I produced a SUSE 6 cut-down cover CD for PC Pro
magazine in about 1996. I ran it until I switched to Warty Warthog,
i.e. Ubuntu 4.10 in 2004 - the first release.

But I occasionally still check in and try the latest OpenSUSE, and
although it does have strengths, being small, lightweight and suitable
for low-end kit is most definitely *not* one of them.

> Possibly other distros do the same.
>
> [*] Desktop; Default; pae; vanilla (ie, without SUSE patches); xen.

But in this case, PAE is the wrong answer...

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