How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM.  I
> want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.
>
> I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel.  How do I change to using
> a PAE kernel ?

yum install kernel-PAE

Note: There may be additional packages which need to be installed,
e.g. kernel-PAE-devel, kmod-nvidia-PAE, etc.

I'm surprised that Anaconda did not detect that your processor was an
i686 and automatically install the PAE kernel.

> What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ?

Don't know.

> Thanks