On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:23 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM. I > > want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM. > > > > I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel. How do I change to using > > a PAE kernel ? > > yum install kernel-PAE > > Note: There may be additional packages which need to be installed, > e.g. kernel-PAE-devel, kmod-nvidia-PAE, etc. For the record, I did: yum install kernel-PAE yum install kernel-PAE-devel I already had akmod-nvidia installed. (Which rocks, btw.) I knew that akmod-nvidia needed a -devel package because I used to manually build my nvidia drivers. But I didn't realize that the PAE kernels had their own -devel, but then I should have because its an option in the kernel setup if you build your own kernel. DUH ! > I'm surprised that Anaconda did not detect that your processor was an > i686 and automatically install the PAE kernel. I've been running this installation since Fedora 8 and I think there was a time period when the PAE kernels were not available. And everything since then has been an upgrade/update, so Anaconda probably isn't getting to look at what kernel I might need. > > What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ? Everything seems faster, but I also changed kernels and there was a yum update to KDE at the same time, so I can't tell how much is from the new kernel version, the new kde updates and from PAE. In any event, I am a happy camper. Thanks for the replies. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
