Once upon a time Wednesday 20 June 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > A day or so ago, I flipped the switch and killed off the 586 specific > kernel, by making the 686 kernel bootable on older machines. > Turns out it isn't that easy however. > Rpm will refuse to install the 686 kernel a 586, because it checks > the arch.. > > sudo rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc8.i686.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### > [100%] package kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc8 is intended for a i686 architecture > > > (Oddly, the 586 kernel uname is reporting itself as 686 already, > which I don't quite understand.. > Linux equinox 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:11:19 EDT 2007 i686 > i686 i386 GNU/Linux) > > Anyway.. To 'solve' this, I think I'm going to have to make the 686 > kernel package an 'i386' package. > > Does anyone see anything flawed with this approach? > > (Modulo problems with yum doing exactarch matches and upgrades being > more of a nightmare than usual). I dont particularly care what the kernel is called but im looking at buying a system from http://www.soekris.com/ to use as wireless access point / firewall / router . its a 586 class cpu so i would really like to have fedora working on it. Dennis
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