Switching Fedora to pae kernel by default?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Jan 21 15:52:14 UTC 2009


On Wednesday, January 21 2009, Kyle McMartin said:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:15:24AM +0000, Christopher Brown wrote:
> > The fall-out from this going onto the livecd makes me shudder.
> 
> Jesse explained this to me,
> 
> To clarify: the anaconda installer is i586, and all 3 kernel flavours
> are shipped on the disc. I would imagine the livecd is i586 and will
> remain that way.

No, the livecd is i686.  Because due to other things about the livecd,
you have to have more ram than most i586s would support.

The number of i586 users we have is minimal.  The number of non-pae i686
users we have is much more significant.

Jeremy




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