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[George DiceGeorge <dicegeorge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

no,
i dont mean to include a non-pae working system in all distros,
just for an error message to pop up
saying what the CPU is
and which distro would work.
(i am not a hardware expert)

[george]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Nio Wiklund
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 12:57 PM
To: George DiceGeorge ; toriOS Mailing list ; ToriOS developers
Subject: Re: [Torios] [Torios-dev] ToriOS Release Schedule - edition 1.0

Den 2016-03-16 kl. 13:48, skrev George DiceGeorge:
> Is it possible for the install CD/USB stick
> to first scan the computer
> and post up a message if the CPU is unsuitable
> with recommendation for what distro would work.
>
> I wish Ubuntu etc would do this
> for non-pae CPUs
>
>
> [george]
>
> someone wrote:
> > > There are hardly any non-pae computers left. The boot option forcepae in
> Ubuntu 14.04 will provide a solution for Pentium M and Celeron M CPUs,
> and in the very few (if any) remaining cases, we can offer ToriOS-Debian.
>
> I suggest that ToriOS 2.0 will have an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 'Trusty'
> version instead of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise). I agree that there should
> be a Debian Jessie version too.

Hi George,

I think this is difficult to scan the computer like you want unless you
provide the most primitive version (non-pae), and it is probably the
reason why it is not implemented already i Ubuntu.

Does this mean that you want to keep the non-pae live system in all
future versions of ToriOS? I think it is enough in one of the future
versions (Debian).

Best regards
Nio