On 05/14/2012 06:00 PM, Scott Garman wrote: > On 05/14/2012 05:49 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> So, after burning the right iso, I tried to boot it on my laptop. I get >> the error message: >> >> _________________________________________________________ >> >> This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae >> >> Unable to boot -- please us a kernel appropriate for your CPU. >> _________________________________________________________ >> >> >> Sigh. My desktop machine has the feature, but my laptop does not. > I assume you're referring to the amd64 version of Ubuntu for the Pentium > 4, and the i386 version for the Pentium M?
Actually, I hadn't pursued it far enough to figure that out, yet. > Running those respective versions on your machines should still be > "equivalent" software - you can make sure the same list of packages is > installed on each machine. I've always taken the default. Would it be different for the two versions? How would I know? > Userspace applications can use the same > configuration files, etc. It's just that the software will have been > compiled with some different CPU optimizations and the kernels will be > somewhat different. That's good. While I always like to go buy new toys -- I mean tools -- a new laptop isn't part of the current budget. > If you want absolute binary compatibility between the two machines, you > could run the i386 version of Ubuntu on both of them. But I'm not so > sure you really need to do this. That's a thought. I might just try that. Step one is to try it on the laptop. If the experience is anything like 11.10 I might be ready to change my desktop before Halloween. :-) Thanks for the comments. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
