Hi,

With the help of Stephen Isard, I have written a working nonpae kickstart file that can be included by any 
other SL LiveCD kickstart file:

https://svn.iac.ethz.ch/pub/livecd/trunk/SL6/livecd-config/sl63-live-NONPAE.ks

See for example

https://svn.iac.ethz.ch/pub/livecd/trunk/SL6/livecd-config/sl63-livecd-gnome.ks
https://svn.iac.ethz.ch/pub/livecd/trunk/SL6/livecd-config/sl63-livedvd.ks
https://svn.iac.ethz.ch/pub/livecd/trunk/SL6/livecd-config/sl63-mini_livecd-icewm.ks

You find a LiveCD, LiveDVD, and Mini-LiveCD for testing here (*-NONPAE.iso)

http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/63/i386/

These Live iso's should run and can be installed on non-pae capable hardware.

Please note the kernel-ml-NONPAE is provided by elrepo-kernel. It is not officially supported by SL or TUV.
For more information see http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml

For building your own LiveCD see http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/build.html

Cheers,

      Urs




On 09/02/2012 01:27 AM, Stephen Isard wrote:
> Hi Urs,
>
> Thanks for the hints.
>
>> Since you have replace kernel with kernel-ml-NONPAE in
> sl6rolling-live-base.ks, I guess that an other package requires "kernel".
>
> And the package "kernel" is
>> installed as dependency.
>>
>> The following command (run on the LiveDVD) may give some hints:
>>
>> rpm -qa | while read rpm; do rpm -q --requires $rpm | grep "^kernel " &a
> mp;&
> echo "*** $rpm ***"; done
>
> Correct.  There are several packages - a couple of xorg-x11 drivers, fuse
>
> and a few others - that require "kernel".
>
>> Furthermore, does the rpm kernel-ml-NONPAE provides "kernel"?
>>
>> rpm -q -provides kernel-ml-NONPAE
>>
>> If this is the case, kernel should not be installed as dependency...?
>
> Yes, kernel-ml-NONPAE does provide
> kernel = 3.5.3-1.el6.elrepo
>
> The "requires" are all for kernel >= 2.xxxx
>
> So is it just an ordering problem?  If kernel-ml-NONPAE had been installe
> d
> before the other packages, would they still have pulled in the other kern
> el?
>
>> 2. Edit boot menu
>>
>> The boot menu is customized in sl6rolling-live-base.ks. Look for the scr
> ipt
> /root/postnochroot-install. In fact $LIVE_ROOT/isolinux/isolinux.cfg is c
> reated.
>> Have a look at /isolinux/isolinux.cfg on your LiveDVD. It should be
> possible to remove all boot entries for "kernel" in /isolinux/isolinux.cf
> g
> with the help of
>> some "magic" sed-commands in /root/postnochroot-install.
>
> I'll have to study that.
>
>> BTW. if we (you) get the this working, I will try to add it to the SL Li
> ve
> kickstart files as an option....
>
> Good, I think there are others who would use it as well.
>
> Stephen Isard