-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 April 2003 11:10 am, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Michael Fratoni wrote: > > One additional problem that the OP will probably encounter is that > > there is no Red Hat provided kernel package on the install media that > > will run on a i486 machine. (With the possible exception of the > > kernel-BOOT package, and even that won't run on anything less than a > > 486DX, as the BOOT kernel is configured with CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION > > not set). > > If you have the SRPM handy, does it still support i386 or i486 builds > in the spec file? I both i386.config and smp-i386.config in the > kernel-source package. But it will probably require building a custom > kernel now, and again for future updates. Yes, the specfile still supports the i386 build. I have to build a kernel package for the RULE installer, I use: rpmbuild -bb --target i386 --without BOOT --without smp --sign kernel-2.4.spec > Then again, RHL-9 isn't "supported" on i386 or i486 either. > I think all the packages, while many are i386, are just i386 > instruction set compatible, the instruction choices and ordering is > i686 optimized. in other words using the gcc options -march=i386 and > -mcpu=i386. Correct, RHL-9 it isn't supported on anything less than an i586. Neither was the 8.0 release. I believe the default flags are: - -O2 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 Which is as you said, i386 compatible, optimized for i686 > > Getting the proper version of glibc installed is all well and good, > > but if the kernel can't boot, glibc won't matter. ;) > > Since this was previously done for RHL-7.3, I guess this has been taken > into account. The 7.3 release did contain an i386 kernel package: $ whichcd -v 7.3 kernel | grep i386 CD-1:kernel-2.4.18-3.i386.rpm However, it did lack an i586 (UP) package. ;) - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+n14nn/07WoAb/SsRAhrYAJ0YPG/vgXC2n9hFNJ23PqUP+Vl4kQCfUqfA kQXGgssuKDWKK9/PNLuVHHk= =bXcd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
