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Originally posted by itsjustme
Yes, but, I have 2 other machines here with red hat that say i686 for HOSTTYPE and those machines are a P-III 866 and the AMD K6-II 350.
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Well, RedHat is clearly lieing here.
K6 is NOT i686 compatible, but i586, so my
educated guess is that RH just uses HOSTTYPE
to express their own idea of what you've got
installed rather than anything that relates to
your actual hardware, maybe based on some
internal naming conventions for their distro's
RPM's ... I'd also guess that they'd say i686
on a box with a PIV or Athlon.
Just don't worry about the variable ;)
Cheers,
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