On 9 November 2010 12:37, Egon Ashrafinia <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/11/9 Oliver Burger <[email protected]> >> >> "Erin Wilkins" <[email protected]> schrieb am 2010-11-09 >> > Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > the i686 _IS_ the default one for x86 cpus >> > >> > In the standard installer. But I believe ONE uses 586 to be able to run >> > on >> > as wide a range of hardware as possible. >> Exactly! The problem is: the One shell run on all possible machines, so it >> uses the i586 kernel. And there just is not enough space on a CD image to >> put >> another kernel on it. >> When you're installing from a Free you get the best kernel for your >> system. >> With a 32bit system using less then approximately 4GB RAM you'll get the >> Desktop (i686) kernel, when using more you'll get the Server kernel. >> >> Oliver > > Thats may be correct, I dont know I never used the "free" one. The problem > is that people with light DSL ( like I do ) cant get the "Free" version of > Mandriva ( Mageia ) and the only option is to DL the One Iso. Thats also > what I think of. Most people get the One Iso because it is: > > 1. A smart Iso, fits on a CD. > 2. Has all componens Out of the Box ( driver and stuff like that ) > 3. Only ~700MB to download and not 2-3GB ;) > > Thus our main "consumer" are going to DL the One iso. So we have to focus on > that. And when there is a Kernel which is going to slow down my System I am > not going to use it anymore. I mean what are the main diffrents of them? > Only a few configs right? Maybe we do it dynamic and he is autodetecting the > System and config the Kernel that way. Is that possible or is then a new > building of the Kernel needed? Maybe thats the sulution. I mean where are > going to discuss here and it would realy be an improvment, when we allow > People to use a modern and fast kernel and not a kernel which is going to > slow the system ( well only a bit ) just because there are some people who > are proud the use a Pentium II CPU just to be cool. You can get a 64-bit CPU > computer for less then 200€. Thats not the problem in my eyes. > Sure it is correct, that they should use 64-Bit Mandriva. But not everyone > is doing it. We talk about general configurations and not about a short > group of people. Maybe we should think that way. > > I hope you guys understand what I mean ;) > > Greetings > > Egon >
After installation and adding the online repos it's a matter of install kernel-desktop-latest (and maybe kernel-desktop-devel-latest), and the system will use kernel-desktop. After you're sure kernel-desktop works you can uninstall kernel-desktop586. -- Ahmad Samir
