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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nio, Julien et. all.

we have in the past mentioned community re-spins of lubuntu and when you
are happy with the README, I am happy to host the iso and see no reason not
to include a mention of both the use of fake-pae and of a 13.04 community
re-spin so that people do not need to use fake-pae. The thing about linix
is 'choice', give people the choice and let them decide. Use fake-pae if
they already have an install of 12.04 that they want to run through two
dist-upgrades and the non-pae 13.04 for those who are installing for the
1st time. I see this as a "win - win" situation.

Regards,

Phill.

On 2 May 2013 04:19, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [feedback]
>
> Hi Julien and Phill,
>
>
> I think Lubuntu 13.04 'Raring' for Pentium M CPUs is a good alternative
> for a fresh install (instead of downloading 12.04 and upgrading twice to
> newer releases).
>
> I'm receiving feedback from a few people right now, and I have to
> improve the instructions in the README file, maybe also change the
> concept of it to make it easier to understand and manage, since it is
> different from the standard way of distributing software.
>
>      -o-
>
> But for those who have
>
> - more or less personalized versions of Lubuntu 12.04 running, or
> - already have a Lubuntu 12.04 iso file and a slow internet connection
>
> the fake-pae method is good for upgrading to new pae releases, so yes,
> it should be mentioned on the wiki.
>
>      -o-
>
> Background
>
> The Pentium M CPUs are a special case. They have pae capability, but do
> not announce the pae flag. So they fall between the chairs. With the
> fake-pae trick, introduced by 7bit @ ubuntuforums, it is possible to
> upgrade. There are many high-quality professional laptops around with
> Pentium M processors.
>
> And, I have a Raring installation on a USB 3 pendrive, that runs
> beautifully on my old Thinkpad with Pentium M without the pae flag.
> So the fake-pae flag helps it sit on the pae chair.
>
> This is what I am willing to offer to other Pentium M owners.
>
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
>
> On 2013-05-01 12:55, Julien Lavergne wrote:
> > Why not just add a mention on the wiki to use fake-pae for people in
> > this case ? It seems less complicated that downloading a full version
> > of Lubuntu just for this.
> > If you are blocked by the upgrade tool, just advertise the use of
> > "apt-get dist-upgrade".
> >
> > Regards,
> > Julien Lavergne
> >
> > 2013/4/30 Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> Hi Nio,
> >>
> >> I'm okay with hosting it[1]. But you will need to write up some
> >> documentation, name it etc.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Phill.
> >> 1. http://phillw.net/isos/
> >>
> >> On 30 April 2013 20:41, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello everybody,
> >>>
> >>> I think it will be hard to make the devs accept the small fix in the
> >>> general code of *ubuntu to make it possible to install into a computer
> >>> with Pentium M CPU. But it works with a system, that is installed in a
> >>> modern computer, and ported to the Pentium M as a USB drive or cloned
> or
> >>> rsynced to an internal hard disk drive.
> >>>
> >>> I have such a system ready for distribution, but have a few requests
> >>> before it can be uploaded and available for everybody.
> >>>
> >>> 1. Please read the attached README file and suggest changes (remove,
> >>> change or add text)!
> >>>
> >>> 2. Please suggest where to upload it! The size is 1.1 GB.
> >>>
> >>> sudodus@ssd-grund ~/test/pae4pm $ ls -lh
> >>> totalt 1,1G
> >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 olle olle 3,0K apr 30 14:24 commands-and-output.txt
> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 olle olle   56 apr 30 16:43 dd-restore.txt
> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 olle olle 1,1G apr 30 20:09 dd-sdb.gz
> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 olle olle  630 apr 30 14:55 dd-sdb.txt
> >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 olle olle  283 apr 30 20:47 md5sums.txt
> >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 olle olle 4,0K apr 30 20:45 README
> >>> sudodus@ssd-grund ~/test/pae4pm
> >>>
> >>> I can upload it at a private cloud service, but I think it is better if
> >>> you suggest some other place with better bandwidth.
> >>>
> >>> 3. I guess the best thing would be if you can organize a torrent (I
> >>> don't know how to do that).
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Nio
> >>>
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