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[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Terry Polzin wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:49 -0400, fred smith wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:26:25PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> > 
>> > I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006.
>> > It still runs, but I'm stuck on F14.
>> > I haven't been able to get F16 to install or F17 to run right.
>> > It uses a pentium 4, so some think its ancient.
>> 
>> in recent RHEL (haven't investigated Fedora, but it may be the same)
>> RH is providing ONLY the PAT kernel, which means of course, your
>> CPU must support PAT. I suppose it's possible that a 6 year-old
>> P4 may not.
>> 
>> I'm running a newer AMD processor here, so this may not apply to
>> your CPU, but when I do "cat /proc/cpuinfo" I get (among other things)
>> this output:
>> 
>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [8]
>> 
>> which lists pae near the start of the list. I'd suspect you could tell
>> whether your P4 supports it or not by doing the same.

pat is in my flags list.

> I'm running F17 PAE kernel on a Dell Inspirion 1000 (2ghz Celleron) I've
> chosen XFCE as my desktop.  May be your desktop choice is too fat.

F16 doesn't get that far.
On F17, I did choose XFCE.

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword."  --  Lily