Re: Fedora issues

Hmmm that is a good question , the dvd only has NOARCh and i386 rpms
(FC5). I will see if I can get a different FC5 dvd with 686 packages

On Tue, 2008-17-06 at 14:53 -0600, Calvin Gordon wrote:
> Fedora ISOs come in two flavors, 386 and 686, did you originally
> install from a 686 iso ?
>
> Cal
>
> rob wrote:
> > Yep, I subbed in all the 386/586 packages I could find. Part of the
> > problem is this installer keeps a little DB of what it has installed
> > for some of the configuration
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-17-06 at 12:31 -0600, Dave Hall wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:51:51AM -0600, rob wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a little cyrix based mini-itx computer that I am trying to run an
> > > > "embedded" application on. The cyrix computer comes up as a i586/i386.
> > > > This seems fine until I run the script to install the software packages
> > > > the system needs. Some of the rpms (Fedora 7 system) are marked as i686
> > > > for what ever reason these are seen by the script as incompatible with
> > > >
> > > I'm not sure fooling it is what you want to do as the i686 binaries
> > > may use instructions not supported by the 586 processor.
> > >
> > > Are the offending packages required during installation? Perhaps just not
> > > including them would be the easier route. Just install afteward.
> > >
> > > You could always build your own installation repository or disc and
> > > replace the i686 packages with i386 packages. It may involve grabbing
> > > the SRPMs and re-building them. It's a lot of work for a one-off.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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Received on Tue Jun 17 17:29:53 2008