[CentOS] About I386 not fitting on one DVD

Drew drew.kay at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 05:22:00 UTC 2011


> If the I386 (or i686, never could figure out why the name change)

I think on CentOS/RHEL it's because they dropped support for the 586 &
earlier processors. Linux wide there's been a general drop in support
for 386 class machines. Something to do with recent versions of glibc
and a instruction only present in the 486 and better.


-- 
Drew

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