minimal install CD versus Pentium 4

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 18:50 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 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?

grep -i nx /proc/cpuinfo

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