That is untrue. glibc for i686 will not run on Pentiums or less. Nor will i686 kernels - it will not boot. The compatibility is on only one direction. On Saturday 17 August 2002 05:33, David Csercsics wrote: > It doesn't matter anyway since i386 i486 i586 and i686 architectures are all > from the same family so kernels or packages for any of those architectures > should work on all of the modern amd or intel chips that you woudl usually > find in a PC's if I understand it correctly. -- Cheers John. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb