On Thursday 23 May 2002 19:39, dep wrote: > begin Keith Antoine's quote: > | One point and I have seen chatter about it before BUT: What > | difference would an i386.rpm have to an i686 and would it be best > | to do them as i386? Suse rpms will install with Caldera, won't they > | ? > > i686 stuff is (supposedly) optimized for later chips and won't run on > earlier ones; the lowest common denominator is i386. and suse rpms > might or might not work, depending on where suse puts stuff compared > to where ed 2.4 did. among the leading differences is /etc/.
So it would be best to install 2.4 and process all the tarballs and srpms in that distr and version. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
