Bill Maltby <wild-bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Picked an AMD 5x86 (equivalent to a Pentium 75 MHz)
It is literally a 133MHz AMD486 (i486 ISA,
non-superpipelined). The 32-bit @ 33MHz FSB results in most
of the performance loss versus a Pentium (which has a 32-bit
@ 60+MHz FSB).
Although they often overclock to 160MHz (40MHz FSB) without
issue, except the PCI/ATA.
> and decided to see if I could make it my gateway/router.
That's a good roll for it.
> Memory is 36 MB.
I run IPCop on i486, i586 (true Pentium) and i686 (Pentium
Pro) systems.
> Anyway, my problem is that RPM traps with illegal
> instruction when a query all, among other combinations,
> is attempted.
> It does not do it on my AMD XP, but does do it on the old
> one. Possible that RPM was compiled with a later arch
> specified?
Yes. The K6 is largely i686 compatible (sans cmov), so it at
least runs the i586 installer. The 5x86 is definitely an
i486.
As much as some would mind me recommending another solution
on the CentOS list, I feel I must. Consider IPCop 1.4. It
is a "Linux from scratch" distro (no longer Red Hat Linux
based as of 1.3.0 I believe, maybe it was 1.2.0?).
http://www.ipcop.org
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