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Distribution: ubuntu, RHAS, and other unmentionables
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Each are intel processors and the predecessors to intel pentium class cpu's. Unless you have a very old machine, you likely have neither.
if you have a newer CPU (P4) you likely need to look for i686
I have soyo mobo sy6ba+IV, 100PC, PIII 600 copermine, 639mb ram, old pci yamaha sound card,plextor cdrw 8/4/32A, Asus cdrom 52Xmax, GeForce 2gts 32mb. Sorry I should have posted this with my question. Thankyou
Location: At the 100th Meridian where the great plains begin
Distribution: Debian Testing on T60 laptop
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Yeah so this makes me curious.
If I type "uname -rm" I get the response:
2.6.8-2-386 i686
I installed the 386 kernel package from Debian, but am running on a 686. Does this lead to problems?
Must b I'm a
EDIT: Yeah that's probably kind of a dumb question. I'll just read up on it and test out the 686 version to see what happens.
Newbie so not sure if I'm in the right thread.
Installed RH9 2 weeks ago. Just sorted out registration problem with up2date and did update. Have an i686 but it seems that I've somehow updated to i386 kernel. Does that make sense? Anyway, is this going to cause a problem? Should I try and locate a kernel for i686 and update again? or should I take this opportunity and opt for another distribution like Slackware 10.2?
I installed the 386 kernel package from Debian, but am running on a 686. Does this lead to problems?
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Originally Posted by MuddledAB
Newbie so not sure if I'm in the right thread.
Installed RH9 2 weeks ago. Just sorted out registration problem with up2date and did update. Have an i686 but it seems that I've somehow updated to i386 kernel. Does that make sense? Anyway, is this going to cause a problem? Should I try and locate a kernel for i686 and update again? or should I take this opportunity and opt for another distribution like Slackware 10.2?
i386 refers to the base system that the code will run on. Anything above that will run it just fine.
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