Hmmmmm... I believe you, it was just my understanding that both the Slot-A
Athlons and the Socket-A T-Birds (Athlons) were both 7x86 gen cpus.... :-/
Daniel McKee
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, ja connor wrote:
> A Thunderbird really is "Not" and Athlon! At least 1
> transistor someplace is different. By the way boxed
> Redhat 6.2 would run not run on early Thunderbirds
> either but would run Athlons. I do not know why - I
> just used my Intel box instead :(.
>
>
> --- Daniel McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I had to modify his directions, but i kinda got it
> > to work...It's still
> > insisting on building a .i686 rpm not a .athlon
> > RPM.... I figured out how to
> > force a .athlon RPM, but when I go to install it, I
> > get "incompatable
> > architecture"... ??? I got a Socket A 1GHz
> > Thunderbird, if that's not a
> > Athlon, I don't know what is...lol
> >
> > Anyhow, can someone jump in and help [us] out? Is
> > Mandrake not Athlon savvy
> > yet or ?? Why is my system a i686 instead of a
> > "Athlon"??? And, before
> > someone goes jumping my back about "its the same
> > thing" go look in
> > /usr/src/RPM/RPMS and you'll see a "athlon"
> > directory and a "i686"
> > directory... Why the Athlon directory then?? TIA
> >
> >
> > Daniel McKee
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:38 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Cooker] rebuilding the kernel rpm for
> > a athlon based system...
> >
> >
> > > root wrote:
> > > > Hi, someone about a week ago posted some
> > directions on how to rebuild
> > the
> > > > kernel srpm to be optimized for a athlon
> > cpu...can you please repost the
> > > > directions??? TIA
> > > >
> > > > Daniel McKee
> > > i followed it verbatim and it didn't work for
> > me...:-(
> > > --
> > > pax
> > > -m-
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices
> http://auctions.yahoo.com/
>
