At Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:28:22 -0600 (CST) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > ----- "Marko Vojinovic" <vvmarko at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/