I plan to install CentOS 4.3 on some older IBM Netfinity which have Pentium III chips. I see that there is now a i586 pxeboot image for 4.3, I think that's new. Can I use that for Pentium III?
Kai
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 20:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
I plan to install CentOS 4.3 on some older IBM Netfinity which have Pentium III chips. I see that there is now a i586 pxeboot image for 4.3, I think that's new. Can I use that for Pentium III?
If you need to ask then it's not i586.
Kai Schaetzl spake the following on 4/11/2006 11:31 AM:
I plan to install CentOS 4.3 on some older IBM Netfinity which have Pentium III chips. I see that there is now a i586 pxeboot image for 4.3, I think that's new. Can I use that for Pentium III?
Kai
Anything at or newer than a Pentium Pro or PII is i686.
Scott Silva wrote on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:57:26 -0700:
Anything at or newer than a Pentium Pro or PII is i686.
Ah, so any "normal" Pentium and AMD K5 is an i586 then? And i586 means for i586 *and higher*, right?
Kai
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 00:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Scott Silva wrote on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:57:26 -0700:
Anything at or newer than a Pentium Pro or PII is i686.
Ah, so any "normal" Pentium and AMD K5 is an i586 then? And i586 means for i586 *and higher*, right?
AMD K6 is i586, via C3, and normal pentium ... correct. For those, you would use i586 to boot.
For everything else (ie, the vast majority of x86 PCs, just press enter as usual :)
Kai
Johnny Hughes wrote on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:34:45 -0500:
AMD K6 is i586, via C3, and normal pentium ... correct. For those, you would use i586 to boot.
For everything else (ie, the vast majority of x86 PCs, just press enter as usual :)
Ahm, so I should *not* use the i586 pxeboot kernel on a Pentium III (3)? I saw that it's new in addition to the normal kernel in the pxeboot directory. If the i586 is *only* for i586, then I'm better off to use the normal kernel on a Pentium III and newer? I'm using the pxeboot kernel just to start a remote VNC installation.
Kai
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 02:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:34:45 -0500:
AMD K6 is i586, via C3, and normal pentium ... correct. For those, you would use i586 to boot.
For everything else (ie, the vast majority of x86 PCs, just press enter as usual :)
Ahm, so I should *not* use the i586 pxeboot kernel on a Pentium III (3)? I saw that it's new in addition to the normal kernel in the pxeboot directory. If the i586 is *only* for i586, then I'm better off to use the normal kernel on a Pentium III and newer? I'm using the pxeboot kernel just to start a remote VNC installation.
Kai
Correct .. the i586 kernel and initrd are for i586 only (well ... they will work on i686 too, but the default kernel and initrd are i686 and therefore better).
On fedora the default install kernel is i586 (as it was on centos-4.0, 4.1, 4.2) ... but in RHEL it is i686 ... so we centos changed to offer both, and made i686 the default to better mirror what RHEL does.
This solves an issue with dd= drivers that are built for RHEL so they will work better on CentOS.
Johnny Hughes wrote on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:12:29 -0500:
Correct .. the i586 kernel and initrd are for i586 only (well ... they will work on i686 too, but the default kernel and initrd are i686 and therefore better).
Ah, good, I completely missed the point here. I thought the "standard" kernel offered is for i386 and upwards and the i586 is for i586 and upwards. Thanks for the clarification.
Kai
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