On 08/30/2011 04:32 AM John Hodrien wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 08/29/11 3:20 AM, ken wrote: >> >> You can continue to run EL 5 on it for years to come. Or choose any >> number of other Linux distributions which target down rev hardware. > > Or just do what I did. Put an EL5 install on (which runs nicely). Download > the El6 live CD, and chroot into that (to use the newer yum). Using that yum, > do a yum install of EL6 into a new partition (I've previously used anaconda > for this, but this time I used yum). Install a kernel that doesn't need PAE: > > [epel-kernel-nonpae] > name=Non-PAE kernel build for el6/i686 > baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/lkundrak/kernel-nonpae/epel-$releasever/$basearch/ > enabled=1 > skip_if_unavailable=1 > gpgcheck=0 > > Twiddle the grub config, reboot, and be happy that your machine (in my case a > 6 year old 1.1GHz Pentium M based laptop) runs CentOS 6 beautifully. > > If you want to run linux on old hardware, you need to bring your own linux > knowledge to bear. John, It's refreshing to receive an on-topic, intelligent and civil response, one worthy of replying to. And kudos for crafting this solution! Can I ask, how long have you been running this configuration? 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. Thanks++, ken