[CentOS] How to know it's i586?

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Tue Apr 11 22:34:45 UTC 2006


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
> 
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