Hi,

I have SL303 on a dual-pii (this is the main server for a desktop linux 
cluster, running NIS, Kerberos, Cupsd and running some SCSI drives for 
/home, etc.).  I haven't seen any problems running the i686 kernel  - 
should I expect any?  Was there a specific problem that led to the start 
of this email topic?

/proc/cpuinfo on this machine reports Pentium II and uname -a reports 
i686...

Cheers,
Tom

Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:

>All,
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [log in to unmask] 
>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
>>Behalf Of Connie Sieh
>>Sent: 10 March 2005 16:01
>>To: Miles O'Neal
>>Cc: Troy Dawson; 'Ryan Enge'; [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: SL on 586 hardware
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>>The installer should check hardware arch fairly close to the 
>>beginning 
>>and tell you that a 586 is not supported.
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>>See more below
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>>On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Miles O'Neal 
>>wrote:
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>>>I know this is an old thread, but it hit me last night.
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>>>Troy Dawson said...
>>>|S.L. does not support the i586 kernel, and currently has 
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>>no plans to.  This is
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>>>|because RHEL does not support it.  We just don't have the 
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>>manpower to deal
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>>>|with any issues that might arise with a new kernel.
>>>|If Whitebox does it, then they could be a good choice.
>>>|If you want to stick with Scientific Linux, one thing you 
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>>could do would be to
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>>>|just run the old RedHat 9 kernel.  But then, that wouldn't 
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>>give you a uniform
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>>>|enviroment, so maybe that wouldn't be the best choice.
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>>>Dumb question.  The installer takes you all the way through
>>>the config stuff, right up to package determination (or
>>>selection, I forget which).  To do all this, we are *already
>>>running a kernel that supports my hardware*.  What am I missing
>>>here?
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>The installer runs the 386 BOOT kernel I believe - supports the lowest
>common denominator which is why it works.
>
>Martin.
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>>>I understand that SL is essentially a rebuild of EL, and
>>>don't expect y'all to support a lot of unsupported stuff
>>>(though I won't mind if you do).  I'm just not getting why
>>>the kernel that seems to be available isn't available.
>>>Is the kernel used at install time not the same kernel
>>>that gets installed?
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>>It is derived from the same source but is NOT the same kernel.
>>-connie sieh
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>>>Thanks,
>>>Miles
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