Hi, just dragging through emails,
@Chis, are you okay to with our testers of non-pae chipsets to write up the instructions onto a wiki are? If so, where do want on the 'tree'? At the moment, I'd suggest under a 'clean' area on our Mini Iso area so it can be simply renamed. But, you are the boss :) Regards, Phill. On 10 February 2012 17:36, Lance <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the clarification Julien. It appears that we're are on the same > page. Please take a glance at my forum post: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11661116&postcount=1 > > No need to read the whole thread, a lot off it gets off track anyway, but > please do check my "personal goal" link: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11677511&postcount=100 > > I've encountered some difficulties with the non-pae mini.iso, but no need > for you to worry about that. I'll continue to test the daily builds and > report bugs as needed. Since it is an Ubuntu build there should be no > worries for you ;^) > > Many thanks again, > > Lance > > --- On *Fri, 2/10/12, Julien Lavergne <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Julien Lavergne <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: What is Lubuntu's plan regarding the non-pae kernel? > To: "Lance" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Friday, February 10, 2012, 9:08 AM > > > Current situation is : > > Precise live ISO need a PAE system to run, and install a PAE kernel. > > Precise alternate ISO install a PAE kernel. > > People from 11.10 can still upgrade their system with a non-PAE kernel > (non-PAE is available and supported). > > People who want to install a new precise system on a non-PAE system need > to use the mini.iso, and use the linux-generic kernel when the installer > ask for it. I just tried it, and it's pretty easy. A short documentation > with some screenshots and a note on release notes should do the job IMO. > > Didi I miss something ? > > Regards, > Julien Lavergne > > Le 02/10/2012 04:02 AM, Lance a écrit : > > First of all I have no hardware that's incapable of running the pae > kernel but a few folks have reported at the forums getting an error, > "kernel requires feature pae and won't boot", particularly with Pentium M > machines. > > I've been doing some studying and it looks like upgrades from Oneiric > w/non-pae to Precise remain non-pae, and undoubtedly using the mini.iso > will work, but I'd think both of those options would require fast ethernet. > > I also typically encounter problems using the mini.iso with my wired > network, that's nothing new, I just end up having to connect the machine > that's booting the mini.iso directly to my modem, which means all of my > other machines have to be down while the net-install completes. > > BTW I'm talking about the non-pae mini.iso: > > > http://www.us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ > > Anyway here at Launchpad: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/897786 > > Stéphane Graber said, "I know some flavours of Ubuntu chose to ship with > non-PAE by default, using one of these (probably xubuntu and lubuntu) would > work too." > > So I wonder if we are in fact going to rebuild our iso's with the non-pae > kernel? It would seem rather appropriate since our target audience is > older, lower resource computers. > > Many thanks in advance, > > Lance > > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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