On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, ken wrote:
It's refreshing to receive an on-topic, intelligent and civil response, one worthy of replying to. And kudos for crafting this solution!
It's a bit faffy, and doing a yum install rather than an anaconda install means there was a little bit more niggly setup left to do. But I'd have no worries about doing it this way.
Can I ask, how long have you been running this configuration?
Not ages, but you're not going to see any problems from this kernel change.
And have you noticed in this time any problems related to the non-PAE kernel? Also, do you run server apps on your laptop, e.g.. apache, mysqld, sshd, cups, postfix, mailman? It might be easier just to send the output of "chkconfig --list |grep -w on"... to me privately if you have security concerns.
You can happily run anything you like, we're only talking about disabling PAE. You're limiting yourself to ~3Gbytes of RAM, but given my laptop's hardware only supports 1.25Gbytes maximum, that's not really a problem. Seriously, it's going to be able to do exactly what any other non-PAE enabled distribution would be able to do.
jh