FC6

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Wed Oct 25 09:33:19 UTC 2006


On Oct 24 Lonni J Friedman did spake thusly:

> On 10/24/06, Brian Mury <brianmury at alumni.uvic.ca> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 01:19 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
>> > Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>> > > So has anybody actually installed FC6?
>> 
>> Yep. I did an upgrade from FC5.
>> 
>> It installed the i586 kernel instead of the i686 kernel, but installed
>> the i686 kernel headers. I discovered it when trying to build a kernel
>> module. I had to go to the DVD, find the i686 package, and install it
>> with --force. Seems fine now.
>
> I saw that too.  Very annoying.

Doing an update via yum (I know! But it saves bandwidth...) I got the FC6 
SMP kernel headers and no upgrade to the kernel-smp package...so I had to 
manually install the kernel i686 RPM...

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