On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 17:01 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > > How do I force the install on the AMD machine to be suitable for the PII > > machine, ie --arch=i586 ? > > A PentiumII certainly qualifies as i686, so forcing i586 is not needed. > ["$ grep flags /proc/cpuinfo" containing "cmov" and "cx8" means i686.] > By default you may get an operating system kernel that is specialized > for 'athlon'. If so, then after the install finishes use rpm to > --install the i686 kernel. Boot i686, then rpm --erase the athlon > kernel. The kernel is the only .rpm that is specialized for athlon > over i686. [glibc is specialized for i686 over i386.] Fedora no longer ships athlon-specific kernels. The 2.6 kernel selects optimal subroutines at runtime, and the Fedora kernel maintainers feel that any additional benefit gained from an athlon-specific compile is so small that it is not worth the additional maintenance headache. Kevin Freeman