-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 December 2002 08:03 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > in my attempt to document some of the more obscure features of > kernel construction, i'm sure i'm going to ask the occasional > silly question, but here's the first. > > i'm assuming that, at installation time, the kernel is > installed from one of the pre-built kernel RPMs on the > install CDs, yes? > > on psyche, the results of doing a "find" on anything > kernel-related in the RPMs on the CDs came up with: [snip kernel package list] > since the above output clearly represents the RPMs that came > with red hat 8.0, it's not surprising that there are a number > of pre-built kernel RPMs to cover the different possibilities > (i586, i686, smp, athlon, etc.) > > but no generic "i386" kernel RPM. am i misunderstanding > something here? what if i'm really installing on a true > 386? which kernel will i get? > > or am i just confused?
As of the 8.0 release, you won't get a kernel package at all. I haven't tried, but I assume the installer will bail out on an i386. While i386 processors haven't been supported for some time, for Psyche, Red Hat removed the i386 kernel package from the distro. There was a rather long discussion of this on the Psyche mailing list shortly after the release of 8.0. You should be able to find it in the archives. The thread starts here: https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/003295.html - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+CcKdn/07WoAb/SsRAgwdAJ4knIB2oyooshkSaKwvr5ICR2iwPQCfUB5W 6z39XCKGDcoC+BqqZN2M3js= =OCnl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
