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i386 or i686??
Name: Chris Nally Date: April 30, 2002 at 04:38:09 Pacific
Comment:
I have a Linux Red hat 7.2 server setup with an Athlon 1.4 GHZ processor. At the login screen (I have the server setup as command prompt) It say I have an i686 arch. Does this mean that I should install only i686 RPMS? I recently installed the kernel source (RPM), it was a i386. I installed it from the Red Hat CD that came with my purchased copy of Red Hat. It seem to install fine (no errors). I am curious though, does it matter if I install i386 RPMS, even though my system is a i686? Please explain this to me. Thank you for your help
Name: jon Date: April 30, 2002 at 05:13:11 Pacific
Reply:
doesn't matter (if you install lower than yours). All that means is when the prog was compiled it was done twice and then packaged into an rpm archive. i686 compiling justs add optimisation for the i686 cpu (relevent if any asm code is present
J
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Response Number 2
Name: FreakboY Date: June 27, 2002 at 01:19:33 Pacific
Summary: i386 and i686 specify the processor that the package was compiled and optimized for. They will run on newer processors but not older. For example the i386 build will run on 386, 486, pentium...
Summary: thanks.. one more thing if you don't mind, sorry.. I've got the software, and I know the basiclinux website says slackware packages can be used, so i've got the slackware penngy packages, but which on...
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