RE: Pentium 4 status

["Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx taylor intel com>]

Redhat 7.0 should work just fine with a P4.  Redhat 6.2 will need an updated
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc file which includes i?86 (I just put it everywhere there
is a reference to athlon).  This is because Intel changed their nomenclature
to make the Pentium 4 an i1586 (instead of i786).  Thus RH 6.2 sees the
processor as an i?86, and also, I might add, as an SMP machine.  You will
have to start the machine as linux-up (uni-processor).

Forrest


-----Original Message-----
From: A. Konstam [mailto:akonstam@trinity.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:46 AM
To: guinness
Subject: Pentium 4 status


Sometimes information just goes by you when it is not immediately relevant.
Up yo
now I did not have to deal with Pentium 4-s. Now I do.

What is the status of RH Linux visa-vis Pentium 4.
Will 6.2 install; will 7.0 install, etc, etc , and so forth?

Sorry for the retrograde question but now that it is come up I have
forgotten the
answer.
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