Re: i386 or i686 updates.....

I seem to remember an answer to a differnet question involved how to find out 
if you were running i386 or i686, so i did " grep i686 /boot/*" on my rh9.0 
and "grep i386 /boot/*" on my rh7.3 and I found /* Kernel type i686 */ and 
Kernel type i386 in /boot/kernel.h

I believe this answeres my question.

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 07:41 am, Andreas Lund wrote:
> Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:05:23 -0400, Michael Cortes <[email protected]>
>
> > if I need the i386, i486, i586, or i686 updates....
>
> If you are running an Intel P2 or newer, and the package in question is
> available for both i386 and i686, always use the i686 one. In most cases
> this will give you better performance and in some rare cases it's the only
> one that will work properly for you.
>
> I _think_ rpm will refuse to install an i686 package on an i586 machine,
> but I have never tried it because it would break things horribly :-)
>
>
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