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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

2013-12-29 00:27, Nio Wiklund skrev:
> Phill Whiteside	wrote 6:57pm Dec 27:
> 
>> Hi Folks, well you know me I've been working quietly to get a non-pae
>> kernel build for lubuntu 13.10 to happen. Lubuntu has done community
>> respins in the past. This was a little more difficult as it needed an
>> MOTU who is not a kernel person to actually build the kernel and then
>> another good guy to make a respin. Please do give a try of
>>
>> http://phillw.net/isos/non-pae/
>>
>> if this works, we may be able to > expand.,,
>>
> 
> Back from Christmas celebration, I have run Joern's non-pae build of
> Lubuntu 13.10 live in an IBM Thinkpad T42 without a pae flag. The CPU is
> a Pentium M, so it is relevant for that catergory of CPUs (without a pae
> flag, but with pae capability).
> 
> 
> 1. It runs as it should (with zram etc, except that there is only the
> guest user, so I cannot run sudo). Anyway it is good as a test, that the
> kernel works without a pae flag :-)
> 
> (I checked with md5sum that both of you Joern and Phill have uploaded
> the same version, the one I tested.)
> 
> 
> 2. Can *you* try to run it in a computer with a pre Pentium II CPU?
> (without PAE capability, so that fake-PAE won't help)
> 
> 
> 3. Is there some particular feature or program or task, that should be
> tested?
> 
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 

I could not install it into my IBM Thinkpad T42. It crashed at a rather
late stage (after downloading files, during installation of the system)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1264762

Best regards
Nio