Non-PAE kernel in 12.10

[Tom H]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 November 2012 14:55, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to upgrade Lubuntu 12.04 on my old Thinkpad X31.
>>>
>>> It's a 1.6GHz Pentium M with 1GB of RAM, so not too slow.
>>>
>>> But the Pentium-M doesn't support PAE so the generic kernel in 12.10
>>> will not boot.
>>>
>>> Is there a non-PAE kernel available?
>>>
>>> If not, I am perfectly able to compile my own - but how to
>>> install/upgrade the rest of the OS?
>>
>> How about apt-pinning linux-image and linux-generic with a priority of
>> "-1", compiling a kernel, and upgrading?
>
> [1] will a pinned package survive a distribution upgrade? I did not realise.
>
> [2] the hand-built kernel would be as a standby, right? Or would it be
> the main one and the pinned one the standby or something of that ilk?

1) Yes. The update uses apt as a backend and it's a safer and fancier
"apt-get dist-upgrade" after changing "/etc/apt/sources.list".

2) I assumed that you wanted to use a more recent, self-compiled
kernel but, yes, you can use it as a standby too.

Two more pinning thoughts:

You might want to pin linux-headers and linux-headers-generic too, for
completeness.

You have to pin every package thrice; for precise, precise-updates,
and precise-security.