[Fedora-livecd-list] i586 needed, how?

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Thu Feb 21 01:04:49 UTC 2008


Warren Togami wrote:
> anaconda --targetarch=i586 would install i586 packages instead of i686. 
>  I need chroot-creator to do the equivalent so the resulting chroot can 
> work on both i586 and i686 clients.  i586 clients are common with LTSP.
> 

It broke about the same time the yum back-end came into use.


> It was suggested that I test "setarch i586" after removing 
> /etc/platform/rpm.  The resulting chroot was still i686.
> 
> Any suggestions as to what is the best way the equivalent of anaconda's 
> --targetarch= can be implemented in ImageCreator?


Here is what I use in my ks file:

%packages
@base-x
@base
@core
@admin-tools
@dial-up
@hardware-support
@printing
kernel.i586
-glibc
glibc.i386
openssl.i386
-pm-utils
pm-utils.i386
memtest86+

works for me, YMMV

Jerry






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