On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, John Newbigin wrote:
> Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> > I've just attempted to reinstall my ancient laptop that has Pentium MMX
> > processor. Since it is ancient, I've decided to go with CentOS 2.1. Got
> > stuck, installer claims I need at least i686. Hmmm... I know that 3.8 and
> > 4.4 work without a glitch on i586, so this came as surprise. I even thing
> > original RHEL2.1 might had support for i586 too (but I might be wrong).
> >
> > Anyhow, what happened with i586 in CentOS 2.1?
>
> Although i386 kernel & glibc are provided, you can not install onto anything
> less than i686. You will have to attach the disk to something newer to do the
> install, downgrade the kernel, libc & openssl and then you should be able to
> stick the disk back into the 586.
>
> Be aware that there may be some i686 instructions in the i386 packages. This
> is due to packaging and compiler bugs but they are treated as WONTFIX by RH
> because their minimum supported arch is i686. You should be OK, just don't
> bet the house on it.
What exactly is causing anything lower than i686 to fail ? If it is
anaconda, CentOS could patch it slightly. If it is the kernel, we could
build a i386 one ?
Not sure if we want to do this. What are the arguments for and against
this ? I do see some benefit to have RHEL2.1 and even RHEL3 to work on < i686.
Kind regards,
-- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
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