how to instal RHFC to run on i386

Phil Schaffner P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org
Sat Aug 13 03:26:37 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 08:44 -0400, Gavin Li wrote:
> I want to install RHFC to let it run on a i386, (actually it is i586), but I
> don't want to run installation on a Pentium PC, because it is too slow. I
> want to run the P4 machine, and then take the harddrive and plug in my
> Pentium PC. The problem is if I run the installlaion in P4, it installs i686
> code, (and the glibc, which compiled for i686).
> 
> I go through all the details in the install program, but I couldn't find a
> way to let it install i586 code in a P4 machine. Does anyone know how to do
> it?

My guess is that, by the time you go through all the gyrations to make
this approach work, you could have done a clean install on the slow
machine.

Just my $0.02.

Phil





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