Re: PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:03:52 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > 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. Yes, that's the default behaviour, I guess. It wou

Re: PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-14 Thread Greg Madden
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 snap

Re: PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-14 Thread Camaleón
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 o

Re: PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 apr 12, 18:34:03, German Eduardo Jaber De Lima wrote: > What was the first stable Debian release that enabled PAE support (bigmem > kernel option)? Is it enabled by default in Debian6? Squeeze (6.0) has a -bigmem kernel flavour, so it is available, but not default. I don't know which w

PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-13 Thread German Eduardo Jaber De Lima
What was the first stable Debian release that enabled PAE support (bigmem kernel option)? Is it enabled by default in Debian6?