On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 18:50 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > My only thought is that you may have the wrong DVD, since I just did an > > install on a laptop with a decade-old Pentium-M CPU. I worked, I can't > > complain, I believe the video driver even produced an image under > > GNOME3, although I went with LXDE instead so I can easily put stuff I > > use all the time on the tool bar. > > I got it from here: > http://mirrors.reflected.net/fedora/linux//releases/16/Fedora/i386/os/images/boot.iso > The images I copied from the F16 DVD iso are also on .../boot.iso . > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, James Wilkinson wrote: > > > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Another thing you might try is the "Live-CD" install if the object > >> is just to get it working. Without firing up another system I can't > >> remember if the P4 has PAE or not, do know that about yours before > >> trying the install. > > > > Yes, it does. > > > > However, earlier P4s didn’t have NX/XD, and unless you have more than > > 2GB of memory in the system, you’d probably be slightly better off with > > a non-PAE kernel on those systems. But there’s not much in it. > > My machine has 4 GB. > I got in March 2006. NX for pentium 4s were available in 2004. > That said, how do I find out for sure whether my pentium has NX? grep -i nx /proc/cpuinfo poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
