Re: PAE support in Debian6
On Saturday 14 April 2012 12:20:18 pm Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:34:03 -0430, German Eduardo Jaber De Lima wrote:
> > What was the first stable Debian release that enabled PAE support
> > (bigmem kernel option)?
>
> The first?
>
> If we take we time-machine and according to the snapshot archive¹, there
> was a "-bigmem" kernel since 2.6.17 (dated on August 13th, 2006) which
> means... Sarge, then? :-?
>
> > Is it enabled by default in Debian6?
>
> It will be from Wheezy, AFAIK.
>
> In earlier versions... Mmm, I would better look at the image ISO content
> to see what's included in each of them, for instance:
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.4/i386/list-cd/
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.4/i386/list-dvd/
>
> Which seems to indicate the first CD does not contain the bigmem kernel
> while it is present in the first of the DVDs. If the kernel is there it
> may be preseded and thus triggered to be available at install time, at
> least when using the expert installer.
>
> ¹http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/linux-image-686-bigmem/
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
One additional point, one can still install Debian without 'bigmem' support,,,,
then install the correct kernel for your hardware, you just won't see all the
memory during the install.
--
Peace,
Greg
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