Upgrade of i585 to i686 server

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Thu Aug 5 16:47:20 UTC 2004


Jim Higson wrote:
> No, 586 is Pentium (Pent = five, ium = bugger all).
> No need to change the kernel. There aren't special builds for CPU 
> architectures in Fedora

Are you sure about that? It looks like there are seperate kernels for
i586 and i686 to me...

> and it isn't really needed anyway.

Now *that's* right. You'll get a bit more performance with the right
kernel, but you should boot fine on a Pentium II with a 586 kernel.

The original poster, Tony, needs to post some of his errors for us to 
take a look at if we are to help.

James.
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