up2date is a Red Hat utility. The article may have been specific to RH Linux. As far as I know generic kernels work fine on Athlons.
On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 11:40 AM, Mr.E. wrote: > I have an AMD Athlon Thunderbird processor. > > Do I need to install an Athlon kernel, or just leave everything > (Mandrake 8.1) as is? > > Saw this in an issue of Penguin Shell and didn't know if applied to all > Linux distros or not: > > "Athlon Kernel] > If you're running an Athlon machine, up2date will update your kernel to > i386. Instead of updating it with up2date, download the > 2.4.9-7.athlon.rpm and rpm -ivh it. Grub will see the old kernel as > default so you just need to reset that and you're golden. > > - Ernie Schroder" > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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