FC3: kernel-i586 vs. i686

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Jan 12 04:10:05 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:48:39PM -0600, Erich Noll wrote:

 > rpm -Uv  kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i686.rpm

Don't do this.  Always rpm -i kernel rpm's, as using -U can
really break things badly if something goes wrong.

 > , but it complained about 3 files belonging to  
 > kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm that I had previously installed.  If it 
 > would help I could get the names of the files but I suspect they're not 
 > germane.  I also tried rpm -iv but it complained about the same 3 
 > dependent files from the i586 rpm.
 > 
 > Finally, I tried to rpm -e  kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm but it 
 > complained about (approximately 10) dependent rpms that I presumably 
 > would have had to -e then -i.
 > 
 > Would there be any (performance?) advantage to installing the i686 
 > kernel rpm or is rpm trying to prevent me from stupidly harming the 
 > correct configuration?  If there would be some advantage to getting the 
 > i686 kernel on the machine, how do I go about doing it safely?

A Pentium II should be using the 686 kernel.  If you had updated
using yum or up2date, it would have done all this automatically
for you the correct way.

		Dave




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