[CentOS] How to know it's i586?

Kai Schaetzl maillists at conactive.com
Wed Apr 12 08:31:21 UTC 2006


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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