Hi,
I installed FC3 from the cd images I pulled from the BitTorrent, which all seemed to work fine and the machine seems to work well. It shows i686 when I do uname -a (Compaq 5610, PII-350 Mhz). After getting the machine loaded from the CD images, I pulled the updates for the rpms I had installed and rpm -Uv the updates, all is well.
My question has to do with the difference between the kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm and the kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm , both of which are now available on the update site. I tried doing
rpm -Uv kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i686.rpm
, but it complained about 3 files belonging to kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm that I had previously installed. If it would help I could get the names of the files but I suspect they're not germane. I also tried rpm -iv but it complained about the same 3 dependent files from the i586 rpm.
Finally, I tried to rpm -e kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm but it complained about (approximately 10) dependent rpms that I presumably would have had to -e then -i.
Would there be any (performance?) advantage to installing the i686 kernel rpm or is rpm trying to prevent me from stupidly harming the correct configuration? If there would be some advantage to getting the i686 kernel on the machine, how do I go about doing it safely?
TIA
Erich Noll
