On Tuesday 02 May 2006 16:14, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
As subject says. I just noticed that Anaconda allows x86_64 CD/DVD to be used to install i386 system (using network installation, of course).
This is basically broken. For example, yum will believe that it is installed on x86_64, not on i386. So when you do for example yum update, it will try to install x86_64 packages on i386 system. Which isn't going to fly, since installed kernel is 32-bit (so you get broken executables). It can also play havoc with postinstall scripts that will detect they are being run under 64-bit kernel during installation, but resulting system is really 32-bit.
I find this kinda hard top believe the x86_64 images should not boot on a i386 box. if it is a 64 bit system then just install 64 bit CentOS on it and if there is something i386 you really need install supporting bits only