On 08/30/2011 03:20 PM John Hodrien wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, ken wrote:
>
>> ...
>
> 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.
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