On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 10:49 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
if your installer ran far enough that it even got around to looking at what kernel you need post-install, you dont need i586. hint: the installer runs on a i686 kernel itself!
This doesn't seem quite right. The machine in question is currently running Fedora:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 5 model : 10 model name : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 498.063 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de pse tsc msr cx8 pge cmov clflush mmx mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up bogomips : 997.56 clflush size : 32
$ uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i586 #1 SMP Tue Apr 15 17:24:08 EDT 2008 i586 i586 i386 GNU/Linux
I used the CentOS-5.1 diskboot.img to boot from a USB stick and did a text http install. As you say, it made it to the point where it was looking at what packages it needs, but anaconda threw an exception claiming it couldn't find a kernel to install, and from the above I assumed it was looking for an i586 kernel.
So I guess we have a i586 processor that will boot a i686 kernel, but since it is a i586 processor, the install has no hope of finding the packages its going to look for....
Anyway, as I said, I'll help test any i586 installers/packages you guys come up with.
Thanks for the explanations.
Adam