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I am following this thread with interest, as I'd like to run Linux Lite on my old Dell 8600 laptop which has a Pentium M 1500MHz non-PAE CPU (and only 512 MB of RAM).I, too, saw the guidance on the Linux Mint site about adding the "forcepae" arguments when booting up. I have tried that successfully for Live sessions of both Mint 17 and Linux Lite 2.2. Both run fairly well on that laptop.
The guidance given on the Ubuntu documentation site here suggests that "The "forcepae" option must be entered twice, before and after the delimiter "-- ", so that it is applied to both the kernel on the ISO and the kernel on the system after installation" (my underlining) .I take that as saying that is all one needs to do, and the installed OS will then run happily thereafter.
gksu leafpad /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash forcepae"
sudo update-grub
mint 17.1 says there is a non PAE option but I tried it and the install was really broken.Cinnamon did not have a system tray at all, and other stuff was just off.
Booting with non-PAE CPUsTo boot Linux Mint 17.1 on CPU which do not officially support PAE (Pentium M processors for instance), please use the "Start Linux Mint with PAE forced" option from the boot menu.
2) The .iso file is 772MB but my cd/R capacity is only 727 mb. Is there another wayto make the .iso then other than sending for one in the mail?