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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201204141303.52237.gomadtr...@gci.net
