On Thursday 26 January 2012 09:55:02 Jon Dowland wrote: > On 26/01/12 09:38, Lisi wrote: > > What, in this context, does pae mean? > > pae means "physical address extensions", was otherwise known as "bigmem" > in Debian packaging until recently. It's necessary to > see/use ≥ 4G of RAM on a 32bit kernel. Thanks, Jon. My first thought was better than my second! Lisi