I have a laptop with a Pentium M, I need to know how to enable PAE. I have already tried forcepae it messed up somethings like the cursor.
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Try [this question](http://askubuntu.com/q/117744/178596). According to Wikipedia and [the Ubuntu wiki](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE), only the Banias family of Pentium (and Celeron) M cpus support PAE (or forcing it). You probably only need to enable PAE if you have a large amount of RAM. – Wilf Jun 15 '15 at 21:04
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@Wilf: Ubuntu doesn't run any more if you don't have PAE extensions, regardless of your memory size... **:-(** – Fabby Jun 15 '15 at 23:38
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I did this a couple of years ago on a Pentium M laptop. You can install Ubuntu 11.10, then update to 12.04 or higher. I couldn't get it to work past that due to video hardware incompatibility. Check [How can I install on a non-PAE CPU? (error “Kernel requires features not present on the CPU: PAE”)](http://askubuntu.com/questions/117744/how-can-i-install-on-a-non-pae-cpu-error-kernel-requires-features-not-present) – user3169 Jun 16 '15 at 04:05
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@Fabby well thats stupid because 32bit is probably only needed for machines that don't support PAE - I thought Xubuntu/Lubuntu work without PAE.... (I have a 32bit intel atom netbook happily running Xubuntu 14.04, so it should work....) – Wilf Jun 16 '15 at 11:10
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@Wilf: Don't shoot the messenger! **;-)** Canonical should recompile the kernel without PAE extensions: the kernel itself still supports none... – Fabby Jun 16 '15 at 21:00
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Ubuntu will not normally work on this old computer either way.
Try to install Lubuntu 14.04
You can't enable PAE, if your CPU does not support it.
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Lubuntu requires PAE in 15.04 which is installed right now on the laptop – Jacob Bernardis Jun 15 '15 at 21:05
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@JacobBernardis From Ubuntu family you could try Lubuntu 14.04. How much RAM you have? – Pilot6 Jun 15 '15 at 21:17
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Yah but Lubuntu is running in forcepae so some parts of Lubuntu doesn't look right – Jacob Bernardis Jun 15 '15 at 21:39
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The non-PAE npae124-text-9w lets you install the non-PAE kernel and the desktop environment you want: Xubuntu Desktop - Xfce (that I suggest), Lubuntu Desktop - Lxd.
Download npae124-text-9w from: Here
Burn it to a CD or USB drive.
Boot your computer from the the npae124-text-9wiso and select Install at the prompt. You can then follow the instructions.
After booting into this installed Ubuntu mini system with a text interface, if you wish, install a desktop environment.
Edited
How to install Xfce desktop.
Reboot – remove the Cd/Usb drive.
Login using your username and password.
Run in the terminal
$ sudo -i
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
# apt-get install xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xfonts-base xinit x11-xserver-utils xfwm4 xfce4-panel xfce4-settings xfce4-session xfce4-terminal xfdesktop4 xfce4-taskmanager tango-icon-theme lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter thunar gvfs gvfs-backends policykit-1 udisks2 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio pavucontrol
