Will it be possible to use a non-pae kernel in recent versions of Ubuntu?

I know that Ubuntu +1 questions are frowned upon, but this I believe is a fair exception. Currently I have 2 systems running Ubuntu 12.10, and one of them has a Pentium M that doesn't support PAE (strange I know, but true).

This has meant in the past that I had to rely on a custom iso to install Ubuntu a similar system,and so this time I went with Xubuntu 12.04.

My question is 2 fold, but really one question:

• Is it/will it be possible to install a non-pae version of the 12.10 kernel from the standard repositories?
• If no, how can I get such a kernel? (Is there a PPA with such a kernel available?).

NB:

Before anyone suggests that I just install this package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/linux-image-generic, please note that this comes with PAE enabled.

P.S. Yes, I have Googled. I haven't found the answer.

Solution 1:

• As your searches may have showed, no non-PAE i386 kernels are available for Quantal -- in the official repositories, as a mainline build, or otherwise
• Unless this changes, you will have to find a PPA (I know of none), or build the kernel yourself (which is not difficult at all)
• If you need such a kernel right now, please post in the comments and I will try to provide a PPA with the latest 3.5.0-13 with PAE disabled.

Solution 2:

I don't want to put my T42 into trash, too. Therefore I've compiled a custom kernel based on the latest 12.10 sources.

The kernel runs stable (I've compiled the packages below with it :-))

They are available under here.