On 08/30/2011 03:20 PM John Hodrien wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, ken wrote:
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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.
Though I'm glad those days are gone, I started out in Linux downloading tarballs over a 2400 baud modem onto 3.5" floppies, patching and compiling kernels, and figuring out dependencies by puzzling out error messages. A package management system was not even a future dream then. So I wouldn't recoil from your workaround, but it's too long a story to tell my customers and less techy folk who come to me for advice. Nor would I tell them to ditch their "muttboxes" and bend over for the hardware man when, as you've shown, and what a couple others here have expressed in their absence of saying, none of that is necessary technically. So while your craft wouldn't be a big deal personally (if no one else does, you should sketch it out on the wiki or somewhere), there are others to consider.
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? ....
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
Good to know. Thanks.