Gene C. wrote: > On Friday 11 October 2002 05:46, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:25, Jack Bowling wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:45:31AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 08:43, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>> >>>>> have. They did ship such a kernel with 7.3. It is still possible to >>>>> build an SMP i586 kernel from the SRPM, but this is turned off by >>>>> default. I don't know why. >>>> >>>> CD space reasons. It was either the i586 smp kernel or 10Mb of other >>>> packages that had to go ;( >>>> The number of users of the i586 smp kernel appeared very small and at >>>> least less than the number of users of the <lot of other packages> that >>>> make up 10Mb. >>> >>> Does that imply that the DVD version has a 586 SMP kernel binary? >> >> it does not.... for technical reasons > > > BTW, /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.18-i586-smp.config can be > used to > build an smp kernel for the i586. Not if the machine won't boot, it can't. :-) Paul http://paulgear.webhop.net
