i586 and i686 kernels: which one is the best choice?

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 21:32:18 UTC 2006


On 10/29/06, Lars E. Pettersson <lars at homer.se> wrote:
> > How can I then *safely* replace the i586 kernel with the i686?
>
> I did:
> yumdownloader kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686
> sudo rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs \
>         kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm
>
> yumdownloader comes from the yum-utils package.

Thanks, Lars. I followed your suggestion and now I have my kernel replaced.

Paul




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