On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Monday, December 05, 2011 11:11:45 AM Akemi Yagi wrote:
FYI, the ELRepo project now provides kernel-ml for EL6 [1] that includes a non-PAE kernel [2] (thanks to Alan Bartlett). However, one has to create an install disk/image with that kernel to perform the installation.
This is good; thanks for the pointer. Getting the install media built might be the only issue.
I've been running 6.0 on my 1.1GHz Pentium M non-PAE laptop. I basically did an install using anaconda to install to a directory from within C5, and then installed a non-PAE kernel (kernel-2.6.32-71.7.1.el6.nonpae.i686), grubbed it up and that works nicely. As a one off that was easier than worrying about respinning the install media. It'll be documented on list exactly what I did, I installed that kernel 21st August 2011, so presumably I mailed about it shortly afterwards.
I have no objections to Redhat dropping support for hardware they're not interested in, old or new. It's entirely up to them, and I really doubt they're inconveniencing many customers with this decision.
jh