i386 kernel
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Fri Aug 1 16:12:38 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 05:08, Milan Kerslager wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:35:42AM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> > Probably quite late to bring this up, but can anybody explain to me
> > why there is no i386 kernel available on the installation cd's since
> > 8.0? And if this kernel version is considered obsolete (ie no support
> > for machines below i586) then why are updated i386 kernels still
> > released? That seems a little inconsistent.
>
> Installation CD has kernel-BOOT...i386 so you can use this one. In the
> updates there is no reason to release kernel-BOOT as no RHN user needs
> rebuild installation CD but needs update kernel-BOOT.
Actually, the CD now has the i586 kernel (so that it can have ACPI) and
only the boot disk is left with i386 kernel-BOOT
Cheers,
Jeremy
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