On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:31 pm, you wrote: > i586 will work on machines with a Pentium class processor or newer. That > is, anything newer than a 486. i686 will work on machines with a Celeron, > Pentium II, or newer. Thus my AMD K6 box can use RPMs for either i586 or > i686, but my AMD K5 box can only use RPMs for i586.
I propose that Mandrake writes a program, if such thing does not already exist, to test the CPU and tell the user which rpm to use, i486, i586, i686 or god knows what is next. I propose that this program also be part of the os installation hardware detection. The CPU is just a peripheral that requires its own driver, after all! Seedkum
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