Will Linux Lite work on non-PAE (old Pentium M) System?

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I am following this thread with interest, as I'd like to run Linux Lite on my old Dell 8600 laptop which has a Pentium M 1500MHz non-PAE CPU (and only 512 MB of RAM).

I, too, saw the guidance on the Linux Mint site about adding the "forcepae" arguments when booting up.  I have tried that successfully for Live sessions of both Mint 17 and Linux Lite 2.2.  Both run fairly well on that laptop.

Thanks for reporting back that "forcepae" works in LL.

The guidance given on the Ubuntu documentation site  here  suggests that "The "forcepae" option must be entered twice, before and after the delimiter "-- ", so that it is applied to both the kernel on the ISO and the kernel on the system after installation" (my underlining) .

I take that as saying that is all one needs to do, and the installed OS will then run happily thereafter.

I was unaware of this change until now with your post.  My take on it is the same as yours.  It sounds like if you do "forcepae -- forcepae" during bootup of live DVD, that will ensure that the install will automatically have the forcepae boot parameter active and you shouldn't need to do anything more.  If that's true, then that certainly makes life easier.  I can't confirm that for you though, because I don't have any computers that need forcepae.


If that doesn't work, then you'd need to use forcepae on first bootup of the installed system.  Once in, you'd then open the grub file under /etc/default directory and add the option there.  Open it with your text editor as root with this command:

Code:

gksu leafpad /etc/default/grub

In the text file that opens up, find the line

Code:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

And change it to this

Code:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash forcepae"

Save the file, close text editor.

Enter this in terminal to update grub

Code:

sudo update-grub

Change should now be permanent on reboots.