Fedora 12 Installation Error: Installs i686 kernel on i386 arch and ...

[ooran dayo]

Thank you!

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Andre Robatino <andre at bwh.harvard.edu>wrote:

> The Fedora 12 graphical installer requires at least 384M of RAM.  If you
> have less, it automatically does a minimal text-based install (a small
> fixed set of packages without offering options for additional ones)
> which is what you got.  The confusion regarding the install discs saying
> i386 is common.  The i386 refers to the basearch (which includes
> subarches i386, i486, i586, i686).  F12 requires the i686 subarch.  The
> Live images are labeled i686, but the Install images are labeled i386,
> even though the supported hardware is exactly the same.  Many people
> including myself have asked for the Install images to be labeled i686 as
> well in order to avoid exactly this kind of user confusion.  The
> developers have a general rule, however, that images should be labeled
> by basearch instead of subarch (not a requirement, obviously, since the
> Live images don't follow it).  I believe (someone correct me if I'm
> wrong?) the purpose was to avoid the extra work of changing the image
> name when the subarch changes.  If that's true, it doesn't apply here,
> since this particular subarch will never change again (there will never
> be an i786) so i686 is now and always will be the only subarch that F12
> and above ever support.
>
> In any case, even if there's some benefit to using i386 in the name
> during development, it would be trivial to change it to i686 at release
> time.
>
>
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