----- "Marko Vojinovic" vvmarko@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 19:54:03 Jerry Geis wrote:
It may be one way to do it, but that is not how xen or kvm are ordinarily set up under CentOS -- qemu has (had) the hooks to simulate the missing opcodes of some arch's, but at a performance penalty
if there is a way to "simulate" missing opcodes in the kernel - that
would
be great also. I dont care if there is a performace hit.
I am looking for a way to run the 686 centos on a 486 machine. I was hoping I could just recompile the kernel as 486 and any
libraries
would not be using MMX/SSE etc...
I am no expert on this, but have a feeling that you would basically need to recompile every package that does not have an .i386 rpm.
And if you are about to recompile things, why not use gentoo or something like that?
Gentoo? What do you have against the OP? Why subject him to such madness and unnecessary pain? :D
In my recent trip through i486 land, I found that Debian seems to be the best bet for nearly all packages being natively available in i386. Also, the installation can be pruned down to a very slim ~140MB if you're careful.
Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105
At Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:28:22 -0600 (CST) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
----- "Marko Vojinovic" vvmarko@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 19:54:03 Jerry Geis wrote:
It may be one way to do it, but that is not how xen or kvm are ordinarily set up under CentOS -- qemu has (had) the hooks to simulate the missing opcodes of some arch's, but at a performance penalty
if there is a way to "simulate" missing opcodes in the kernel - that
would
be great also. I dont care if there is a performace hit.
I am looking for a way to run the 686 centos on a 486 machine. I was hoping I could just recompile the kernel as 486 and any
libraries
would not be using MMX/SSE etc...
I am no expert on this, but have a feeling that you would basically need to recompile every package that does not have an .i386 rpm.
And if you are about to recompile things, why not use gentoo or something like that?
Gentoo? What do you have against the OP? Why subject him to such madness and unnecessary pain? :D
In my recent trip through i486 land, I found that Debian seems to be the best bet for nearly all packages being natively available in i386. Also, the installation can be pruned down to a very slim ~140MB if you're careful.
The OP already stated that he wanted to avoid Debian. I think he wants to stick with a RPM-based distro. Unless he needs a 2.6 kernel and the latest security patches, RH 7.3 would be a good RPM-based distro. And yes, it is still out there and available for downloading.
Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Gentoo? What do you have against the OP? Why subject him to such madness and unnecessary pain? :D
Don't be dissin my friends over at the funny farm. :-P We likes our 36hr recompiles because the cflags on our l33t boxen weren't "just right". :-)
It's actually not a bad distro, just gets a bad rep because of the crazy (usually younger) ricers that seem to gravitate towards it. I use it on my MythTV boxes because of the level of customization I've done in my rigs, something I've never been able to achieve in any package oriented distro.
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