[plug] newbie updating: i386 vs i686?

Ian Kent ian.kent at pobox.com
Sun Mar 11 01:34:53 WST 2001


Recent versions of RH will detect your CPU and install approiate kernel and
glibc packages.
You might want to install the i686 if your has such a CPU.

> I usually install packages that are *.i386.rpm but I'm noticing that
> in the RedHat 7.0 updates release from RedHat there'sa section for
> glibc and kernal rpms that is for the i686.  If I update from the i386
> folder for either glibc or the kernel rpms will I be doing something
> terribly awful and blasphemous?
>





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