[sf-lug] distro for an ageing laptop

[Alex Kleider]

On 2017-03-25 20:49, Rick Moen wrote:

> 
> Your answers to the 'PAE-not-present, installing *buntu' question are 
> here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE
> 

This was the solution although a 'gotcha' that held me up for a while is 
that
the syntax is critical and not at all clear in the posting:

forcepae -- forcepae
         ^  ^  spaces required!!!!

before the editing, the line in my case ended in --- not --.

fwiw

Thanks, Rick, for the tip.