On 20 Oct 2002, at 21:48, Andrew Smith wrote: > Well - having thought about it a bit more ... > > Removing one 12Mb RPM is quite rediculous when almost EVERY other > intel RPM is built for an i386. Even glibc has an i386 version. > If you say that you no longer support i386 - then build all the > RPM's to i586 and be done with it. If every RPM was at least i586 > then all intel machines would run a ilttle bit faster. > The argument has been stated before that the majority of performance > gain is in using the kernel and glibc that matches your processor - > and that all the rest is more effort than worth the gain. > However, if they all were already i586 then the effort would be zero > to anyone installing to have all to be at least i586 > Yes, I have the same opinion. And surprisingly, there *is* new i386 kernel for Red Hat Linux: ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0.i386.rpm Unfortunately there is no i386 kernel on the installation disks. We have several boxes with 133 MHz AMD 5x86 (DX5-133) and they are running faster than Pentium-60 boxes, and for simple tasks, (e.g. syslog server) there is no reason to upgrade the hardware - if it is reliable. But there is a reason to upgrade the Red Hat distribution - at present, we have Red Hat Linux 6.2 on all boxes, and according to Red Hat policy to support just the current major version (8 at present) and the latest member of previous major version (7.3), the support of Red Hat 6.2 shall be terminated. It is also good idea, I think, to have the same distribution on all boxes. And now - is anybody able to recommend me how to install Red Hat Linux 8.0 on i486 boxes? Best Regards, Petr Soucek Ryston Electronics s.r.o. Modranska 621/72 CZ-143 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic tel +420 225272222 fax +420 225272211 Email: petr@ryston.cz http://www.ryston.cz -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
