> On Saturday 19 October 2002 10:06 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> > I know i386 isn't supported, hence the existence of the RULE >> > project. It isn't going to be any easier to build the RULE >> > installers without an existing official i386 kernel, since the goal >> > has always been to use the official Red Hat CDs for the install. >> > >> > Back to the drawing board... again. ;) >> >> The i386 kernel is not there for space reasons (it's pretty hard to >> justify 10Mb cd space for an 80386 kernel when that means 10Mb of >> other packages need to be removed from the distro, and that for >> machines that are below the minimum requirements for a few releases >> already) >> Anyway for the erratum I turned on the i386 build again since there's >> no space issue there.... > > Thanks for the reply Arjan. > I don't disagree with the reasoning behind the decision to remove the > kernel. I don't have to like the fact that there is no i386 kernel, > though. ;) > > If not for the RULE project, I wouldn't have noticed that it was > missing. In fact, I only noticed when my initial test of the slinky > installer for the 8.0 release failed to reboot, due to the fact that > there was no kernel package installed. It just means I need to find a > creative workaround. The kernel-BOOT package may solve part of the > problem for those i386 and i486 machines that don't need kernel math > emulation. > > Oh well, off to do some testing.... > > - -Michael The argument about not having 10Mb of CD space is questionable. Simply look at the size of the iso's ... 1: 675315712 2: 666271744 3: 677609472 What is the max size a standard CD can be? 681574400 bytes Difference between this and 2: is: 15302656 Size of the 586 kernel on CD1 = 13428206 I'm sure it could have been put on CD2 ... but then ... -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
