Re: i386 kernel

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

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