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Re: double checking Debian's 686-pae vs. -486 probe



On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 18:28 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> 
> > Say, for the sake of sharing a single .deb offline, what bad thing might
> > happen if I run the -486 kernel on my other machines where I could run
> > the -pae kernel? Namely other single Celerons having the pae capability.
> 
> Nothing happens. You just won't be able to use pae capabilities. Which
> means you are limited to ~3.5GiB physical memory.

Also no SMP.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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