Installing 12.04 on non-pae hardware

[David Henningsson]

On 02/10/2012 05:44 PM, David Henningsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It was decided not to drop the non-pae kernel flavour until 12.10, so
> that non-pae computers would still be supported for five years.
>
> I happen to have one of these, I use it on a daily basis for IRC and a
> few other things. So now I want to test 12.04 on that laptop, but when I
> try to boot the daily live-CD, I get an error saying that my CPU is
> missing the pae feature.
>
> How can I install 12.04 on my non-pae kernel when I can't boot the
> installer? Am I missing something?

I got no responses from the above, so I took the matter in my own hands 
and created a custom Live-CD, based on 12.04 beta1, with the only 
difference that it boots and installs a non-pae kernel instead of the 
pae one.

It's available here for those who want it:
http://people.canonical.com/~diwic/12.04-nonpae/

Note that this is work made by somebody who is not a LiveCD expert by 
any means, never made a custom LiveCD before, and merely followed the 
instructions here [1]. You have been warned. :-)

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
http://launchpad.net/~diwic

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization