On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, John Summerfield wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > if i had been installing f8 on a 32-bit, PAE-enabled system with >4G > > of RAM, would that have automatically installed the PAE version of the > > kernel? or would i have had to make a choice along the way? thanks. > > Try on one of those spare laptops:-) you funny man. :-P actually, it wouldn't help since all of those laptops have 64-bit AMD CPUs so PAE doesn't come into play. > My ThinkCentre's CPU (P IV 3.0 Ghz) says it supports PAE, but I > don't have a PAE kernel installed, though they are available. the actual issue is that, if i have a 32-bit, PAE-enabled system with <4G of RAM, obviously, PAE won't be relevant and i'll get a regular kernel installed. but what if, even though there's <4G *now*, i know that i'll be putting in several gig next week, so i'll want the PAE kernel in preparation for that? better yet, does it hurt to have a PAE kernel even if you don't need the PAE functionality? > Actually, this is probably a Q for the Anaconda list. You might get > both the answer and the reason. good point. i'll wait a bit to see if an answer pops up here and, if not, i'll try over there. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
