Charles R. Anderson said:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:06:54PM -0500, Aaron Haviland wrote: orion> As far as everything being i386, that's lets debian be installable on orion> more architectures, like the 386 laptop i'm typing this on right now. orion> Redhat, Mandrake, etc wouldn't install... everything's pentium orion> optimised.
Red Hat is not Pentium optimized. They do however provide i586 and i686 kernel and glibc packages that will be installed only if the system supports them.
Hmmm. I can't find the redhat or mandrake cds i tried a couple years ago... but i seem to recall that i was unable to completely install because something was compiled for i586 and wouldn't run. honestly can't remember, it was too long ago. *shrug* sorry if i'm spreading bad information. a bad experience will do that to me :) -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org orion [at] parsed [dot] net "Boys in bed, girls in bed All now go to sleep Sleep, sweet dreams Wake to a new today tomorrow"