Hi all; Some of you may have seen on -devel that I've been playing with CentOS 5 on an i586 machine, and several people have displayed interest in the steps I've taken to compile a kernel and deploy it. I'm not quite sure where this would best go, so any guidance would be appreciated. I was guessing that http://wiki.centos.org/Projects/CentOS5PentiumSupport would be the best location for the edits, but if you can think of a better place I've no qualms. The page would go into further detail of the steps here: http://wiki.centos.org/TimothyLee/centos5_i586_patch plus how to use Mock to build the packages sanely, how to deploy the i586 packages to another system without destroying it, etc. What would be covered is the process I used to: Modifying the .spec and .config files for i586. Building the i586 kernel and kernel-devel packages with Mock Building the i386 kernel-headers packages Setting up a minimal system on another (>=i686) computer, installing the kernel, adding any command line options to grub (for me, the system would not boot without "nomce"), installing openssl.i386 and glibc.i386, etc. It looks like the CentOS for the Pentium (and other archs) project might grow, so the content will probably change very fast, and soon might be outdated if a bootable i586 image is pushed out the door. In the meantime, though, I'd like the information where other people can get it and try it themselves. After all, trying new things is fun! (TM). Cheers, Cody Jackson _______________________________________________ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
