>Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:38 PM, Don Dixon wrote: > >Hmmm, I can't find a reference to 2.4 in the link. So if it is true >that it is referring to 2.4 as well, >does that mean there is no difference between the updates kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.athlon.rpm and a >kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm? Until recently rebuilt a couple of customer firewalls running RH7.3 on an AMD platform (now running FC1), but I don't remember if the console logon stated the processor type as Athlon or i686. All my current AMD boxes, both RH9 and FC1 have i686. I also remember an old RH7.1 box I ran on a K6-2 that displayed i586... I'm sure you're running the athlon kernel, anaconda would have caught that, but just to make sure, run both of these... cat /boot/kernel.h This will tell you what procesor type your running kernel was built for... rpm -qa | grep kernel This will display all kernel packages currently installed on your system... Both will most likely show that you are running an athlon optimized kernel. To echo Alexanders comments, use either yum or up2date to handle your package updates. While I'm all for learning how to do everything there's a wizard for manually, dependency management is a Royal Pain In The Ass. Way too time consuming and relatively easy to screw up. Use the updaters! BTW, if you have more than a couple versions of the kernel show up in the output of the rpm command, you might want to consider doing an 'rpm -e' on the older kernels you're not going to run anymore. With the rate at which the Fedora kernels are being released, /boot will start filling up faster than you might think. Eric Diamond eDiamond Networking & Security 303-246-9555 eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx
