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

[Conny Enström]

2012-05-17 14:09, Liam Proven skrev:
> 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?
>

Try the 'Text install' version of ubuntu.