Hi,
Probably quite late to bring this up, but can anybody explain to me why there is no i386 kernel available on the installation cd's since 8.0? And if this kernel version is considered obsolete (ie no support for machines below i586) then why are updated i386 kernels still released? That seems a little inconsistent.
Bye, Leonard.
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On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:35:42AM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
Hi,
Probably quite late to bring this up, but can anybody explain to me why there is no i386 kernel available on the installation cd's since 8.0? And if this kernel version is considered obsolete (ie no support for machines below i586) then why are updated i386 kernels still released? That seems a little inconsistent.
Installation CD has kernel-BOOT...i386 so you can use this one. In the updates there is no reason to release kernel-BOOT as no RHN user needs rebuild installation CD but needs update kernel-BOOT.
Hi Milan,
Installation CD has kernel-BOOT...i386 so you can use this one. In the updates there is no reason to release kernel-BOOT as no RHN user needs rebuild installation CD but needs update kernel-BOOT.
The -BOOT kernel is not normally used on installed systems. I could use an i586, i686 or athlon kernel on an i386/i486 because they are instruction compatible. The problem is that neither of these automatically get installed during installation which causes even a minimal install on a i486 to take a long time because of the missing dependency.
Bye, Leonard.
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On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 05:08, Milan Kerslager wrote:
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:35:42AM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
Probably quite late to bring this up, but can anybody explain to me why there is no i386 kernel available on the installation cd's since 8.0? And if this kernel version is considered obsolete (ie no support for machines below i586) then why are updated i386 kernels still released? That seems a little inconsistent.
Installation CD has kernel-BOOT...i386 so you can use this one. In the updates there is no reason to release kernel-BOOT as no RHN user needs rebuild installation CD but needs update kernel-BOOT.
Actually, the CD now has the i586 kernel (so that it can have ACPI) and only the boot disk is left with i386 kernel-BOOT
Cheers,
Jeremy
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:35:42AM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
Probably quite late to bring this up, but can anybody explain to me why there is no i386 kernel available on the installation cd's since 8.0?
We removed it because of lack of testing; there was no point in using up CD space and (someday, see below) update bandwidth on something that really hasn't been a development target, is generally significantly smaller than our listed minimum requirements, etc.
And if this kernel version is considered obsolete (ie no support for machines below i586) then why are updated i386 kernels still released? That seems a little inconsistent.
It's because we're using the same source base for updates to products that did ship i386 kernels, and so for the updates we need to do the supersets as long as those releases are being maintained.
michaelkjohnson
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