On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Aharon Schkolnik wrote:
> I received the error message:
>
> package kernel-ntfs-2.6.5-1.358 is intended for a i686 architecture
>
> Now, I'm pretty sure my machine is a 686 - it is a Celeron 1.3 GHz.
Celeron 1.3GHz is a i686 (actually, every Pentium 2 or Athlon and up is
considered as "i686". i686 doesn't really exist).
Try to "--ignorearch" your rpm, and see if it works for you. Probably rpm
confuses your architecture's host type because uname declares of more than
one.
Adir.
>
> uname -a gives:
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 \
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> uname -i gives
> i386,
>
> and the documentation says that uname -i gives:
>
> `-i'
> `--hardware-platform'
> Print the hardware platform name (sometimes called the hardware
> implementation).
>
> The kernel rpm I have installed is kernel-2.6.5-1.358, and
> rpm -q --queryformat "%{ARCH}\n" kernel returns:
> i686
>
>
> So, can anyone explain what's going on ?
>
> TIA.
>
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