Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] PAE Kernel

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradlee Landis [mailto:bra...@gm...]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:45 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] PAE Kernel
> 
> Yeah, I saw that quoted information. Is the kernel too large to
> include one with PAE and one without in the iso? I use FINNIX a lot
> for administration, and it includes two kernels (I think 32bit and
> AMD64), and the size of their image is only about 180 MB.

The problem is that you'd have to select the kernel during boot. 
 
> Or maybe you should take a poll of your users to see how many have
> machines that are incompatible with PAE.

Yeah most users won't even know. Can someone do the research which CPUs are
actually supporting it?
Maybe it's safe to say i.e. i686 and up?

> By the way, where is RC2? I see reference to it, but I have not seen
> any downloads available. Is it not complete?

There's no official RC2 release, just the development version.
The latest and greatest is always here:
ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/testing/

Heiko