Can't install Linux Lite 2.6 due to pae option on Pentium M

[jjjimmy1]

Hi-I am new to Linux and am trying to install LL 2.6. it keeps failing due to the PAE option not set.
Is there a way to edit the boot up to forcepae? I was able to do that to install Lubuntu but I don't see how to do that here.  Any info about this? Thanks

[Valtam]

Search 'forcepae' on these Forums, it's been covered plenty. Thank you.

[br1anstorm]

Well, jjjimmy1, I am probably  as new to Linux as you are, and I too had come across this problem of how to run Linux Lite on a computer with a non-pae processor.

The "forcepae" step is described on the Linux Mint site here  (scroll down and look at "Booting with non-PAE CPUs").  There is additional and very useful information on the Ubuntu site here.

I tried this when running Live sessions of Linux Lite on my old laptop, and it worked.  In the end I did not install Linux Lite on that machine, so I have not established whether forcepae is a lasting solution or has to be done on each bootup.  But I had an interesting forum-dialogue with gold_finger (a real LL expert) in this forum thread about whether the double entry of the "forcepae" command would ensure that an installed version of Linux Lite continued to function.  Look in particular at posts #5 and #6 in that thread.  If putting in forcepae twice does not permanently enable LL to run, then gold_finger has also provided another way of solving the problem by editing/updating grub.

If you try either of these routes, I'm sure there are several LL forum members who would be interested to learn how you get on.

Best of luck.....