minimal install CD versus Pentium 4

[Michael Hennebry]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> My only thought is that you may have the wrong DVD, since I just did an
> install on a laptop with a decade-old Pentium-M CPU. I worked, I can't
> complain, I believe the video driver even produced an image under
> GNOME3, although I went with LXDE instead so I can easily put stuff I
> use all the time on the tool bar.

I got it from here:
http://mirrors.reflected.net/fedora/linux//releases/16/Fedora/i386/os/images/boot.iso
The images I copied from the F16 DVD iso are also on .../boot.iso .

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, James Wilkinson wrote:

> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Another thing you might try is the "Live-CD" install if the object
>> is just to get it working. Without firing up another system I can't
>> remember if the P4 has PAE or not, do know that about yours before
>> trying the install.
>
> Yes, it does.
>
> However, earlier P4s didn’t have NX/XD, and unless you have more than
> 2GB of memory in the system, you’d probably be slightly better off with
> a non-PAE kernel on those systems. But there’s not much in it.

My machine has 4 GB.
I got in March 2006.  NX for pentium 4s were available in 2004.
That said, how do I find out for sure whether my pentium has NX?

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