On Tuesday 26 July 2011 20:55:58 John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote: > > Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the kernel that needs to be rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a supported CPU)? Or are there other components that would cause problems and need to be rebuilt too? > > generically, you'd install the kernel srpm, and modify its rpmbuild > scripts to change the HIGHMEM64G kernel configure option to HIGHMEM4G > ... I would also change the name of this kernel (I'd add -noPAE to it, I > think), and the builder name, then run rpmbuild. > > specifically, I haven't done this in quite a long time, so would have to > figure out the details as I went along. > > And how exactly would you do that if the installation just can't proceed if it detects you do not have a PAE processor? Regards, Marc Deop