Non-PAE kernel in 12.10

[Henson]

I'm pretty sure that when you boot the mini.iso and hit F4, there's an *Expert
Mode* available for the *Command-line install*. In Expert Mode, you can
choose which Kernel you'd like during the  install. Hope this helps.


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 February 2013 20:46, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 16:42 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> >> On 24 February 2013 04:07, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> >> "This kernel requires the following features not present on
> >> > the CPU: Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your
> CPU."
> >> Are you missing a word there? It does not specify what feature is
> missing.
> >
> > Er possibly. If so, the word was "PAE" :-)
> >
> >> However, the documented method for 12.04 with non-PAE chips is as
> follows:
> >
> > Thank you for that recipe - very useful (and to others, I'm sure).
> >
> >> > I would really like to be able to put Ubuntu on all this old hardware,
> >> > which is by no means dead yet. T41p, T42, R50, T30 - all still going
> >> > strong...
> >
> > I've chucked teh T21 (just too woefully slow with 11.04, which did
> > install) and the T42 (which, it turned out, was, in fact, dead). Leaves
> > an R50 which took an age to install, but is now working acceptably fast
> > with 11.04, and a T41p, which still seems OK and will boot 11.04.
>
> Ahh, another Thinkpad fan! :¬)
>
> Oddly, much of Ubuntu is /developed/ on Thinkpads. Was back around
> 2005, I was lucky enough to go for dinner with the SABDFL and to visit
> his flat for a drink afterwards. Not a desktop to be seen, but half a
> dozen Thinkpads in the living-room alone.
>
> I currently run a huge Toshiba, a small elderly Thinkpad, a very
> elderly 14" Thinkpad & an Asus netbook. (And an iBook.) If I had the
> money, I'd downsize to a tiny Thinkpad and a big one and that's it.
> But finances, sadly, do not permit.
>
> >> I may try a different desktop, or indeed, whole distro.
> >
> > Me too. The last Ubuntu that was stable and good was 10.04-1. Every
> > version since then has taken one or more steps backward (admittedly
> > often with steps forward as well), and has become less reliable. I am
> > now boot 12.04 every couple of days - 10.04-1 was rock solid.
>
> I have to glumly agree.
>
> > It is
> > almost certainly a gnome3/gnome-shell problem, but I would not have to
> > run GNOME3 if Ubuntu properly supported a reasonable desktop (Unity is
> > not reasonable).
>
> Ah, well, I do not care for GNOME 3 at all and none of my Thinkpads
> have 3D hardware so it's not an option anyway.
>
> I spent 4 or 5 hours last night resurrecting an ancient install of
> Linux Mint Debian Edition on the X31. Unused for nearly a year; I had
> switched to Lubuntu.
>
> Last night, I updated it, removed GNOME 3 and LXDE and installed
> WindowMaker and a suite of NeXT-like apps to go with it. Now, it looks
> absolutely lovely and runs very quickly and responsively indeed for a
> 9YO machine. Only once I am in Firefox 18 or Chrome can I feel the CPU
> struggling a little.
>
> LMDE is a little easier and less work than raw Debian. I may
> experiment more with it.
>
> (After 12.10 imploded, terminally, on my desktop, I wiped that
> partition and put Debian 6 on it. It was several days' work to get it
> to a functional level equivalent to Ubuntu out of the box. There is
> still a *very* big difference between Ubuntu and its progenitor.
>
> >> 11.10 worked but lost the ability to drive a 2nd monitor.
> >
> > Yep - used to work, now does, but broken.
> >
> >> TBH I am considering going back to 10.04!
> >
> > I run IPv6 training courses, and I still use 10.04 for those. It has all
> > the features I need, and none of the "features" I don't.
>
> I am so disappointed, I am even considering - the heresy! - trying
> Fedora or CentOS/ScientificLinux and KDE. Since the days of RH 8, 11y
> ago now, Red Hat always was the only distro family to produce a
> version of KDE that wasn't eye-searingly ugly.
>
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