Mint 14 System Requirements

[Oscar799]

Mint 14 Cinnamon and MATE

a 32-bit PAE-enabled x86 processor or a 64-bit x86 processor (Linux Mint 64-bit requires a 64-bit processor. Linux Mint 32-bit works on both PAE 32-bit processors and 64-bit processors).
512 MB RAM (1GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
5 GB of disk space
Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
CD/DVD drive or USB port

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2216

Mint 14 KDE

x86 processor (Linux Mint 64-bit requires a 64-bit processor. Linux Mint 32-bit works on both 32-bit and 64-bit processors).
512 MB RAM (1GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
5 GB of disk space
Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
CD/DVD drive or USB port

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2244

Mint 14 Xfce

x86 processor (Linux Mint 64-bit requires a 64-bit processor. Linux Mint 32-bit works on both 32-bit and 64-bit processors).
384 MB RAM (1GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
5 GB of disk space
Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
CD/DVD drive or USB port

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2246

[NeonHeartz2k]

Can't wait to install!

[menta13]

someone with the requirements 4 LXDE

[nunol]

Mint 14 doesn't have the "official" LXDE edition but you can install Mint 14 XFCE and install LXDE on top. The requirements are the same as Mint 14 XFCE. The same is true if you install LXDE on top of any other Mint edition.

If you can't install any Mint 14 or 13 edition try installing Mint 12 LXDE (256MB RAM, 4GB disk space, i686 CPU, CD/USB) and upgrade to the Mint 13 base with apt-get, it's easy:
viewtopic.php?f=175&t=115396&hilit=+upgrade#p641560

[DaveO]

I have Mint 13 MATE 32 bit running on an old Dell Latitude X300 laptop but I can't install 14 because the kernal requires a CPU that supports pae.

I thought the pae feature could be switched on or off so is there a work around that would let me upgrade to 14? In other words a way to get a version of 14 that has a kernal with pae switched off? I was thinking I could install a non-pae version of the kernal and then update everything else seperately.

If that is possible could anyone give me some pointers as to how to go about it?

Thanks.

[ljonesj]

It should as I've read that every Intel CPU since the first gen Pentium support pae

[DaveO]

It should as I've read that every Intel CPU since the first gen Pentium support pae

No it doesn't and who knows why Intel didn't include it in some CPU's after they first implemented it. It is a Pentium M CPU and its certainly true that pae was not enabled on some earlier versions of the processor.

I was unaware of this myself until I made a USB live image to do the upgrade. It just hung. So I tried the safe mode option from the boot menu and it flagged the error about the CPU not having pae capability. I did some research and it didn't take long to find out pae is not enabled on my machine.

I don't know why pae is a requirement for the 32 bit kernal. It seems a rather odd choice.

I am quite happy compiling stuff so if I could make my own Mint 14 by compiling a kernal with pae off I wouldn't mind the tinkering involved. Just not sure where to start or if it is possible.

[nunol]

I don't know why pae is a requirement for the 32 bit kernal. It seems a rather odd choice.

Ubuntu decided that, the Ubuntu based Mint editions use the Ubuntu kernel so Mint 14, Mint 15, etc also require pae support.

It's for the 32bit kernel to support more than 4GB of RAM and up to 64GB. 32bit limit by process still 4GB. Applications using more than one process may use more than 4GB of RAM. Also provides the NX bit functionality.

I am quite happy compiling stuff so if I could make my own Mint 14 by compiling a kernal with pae off I wouldn't mind the tinkering involved. Just not sure where to start or if it is possible.

There are ways but LMDE has the i486 kernel available that works with CPU's without pae support.

[MightyManfred]

Good to find this thread. I have a Gateway LT4004U netbook with 2GB RAM, Intel Atom N2600 CPU and Mint 14 will not load. I've loaded it within the virtual machine, checking the PAE box in the system applet. But there is nothing in the boot options to address this. I guess I need to find Mint 13.

[Banacek]

I've read that the mainboard should also be checked for PAE compatibility because if it isn't, it won't work even if the CPU does support PAE. However, when I look at the stats for the PC I'm currently using (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu ... e=bpb11682 believe me, I would not pay good money for this crap; the only reason I'm using this machine is because it's free and it gets me online) but I don't see anything that tells me whether or not there is any PAE support. Is there a tool somewhere that will tell me whether or not it supports PAE? I'm running Windows XP Home Edition on this machine but I'm interested in running Mint on it as a dual boot.

[nunol]

Good to find this thread. I have a Gateway LT4004U netbook with 2GB RAM, Intel Atom N2600 CPU and Mint 14 will not load. I've loaded it within the virtual machine, checking the PAE box in the system applet. But there is nothing in the boot options to address this. I guess I need to find Mint 13.

That CPU supports PAE (and 64bit), it's something else that's preventing Mint 14 from loading.

I've read that the mainboard should also be checked for PAE compatibility because if it isn't, it won't work even if the CPU does support PAE. However, when I look at the stats for the PC I'm currently using (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu ... e=bpb11682 believe me, I would not pay good money for this crap; the only reason I'm using this machine is because it's free and it gets me online) but I don't see anything that tells me whether or not there is any PAE support. Is there a tool somewhere that will tell me whether or not it supports PAE? I'm running Windows XP Home Edition on this machine but I'm interested in running Mint on it as a dual boot.

That CPU supports PAE.