[plug] Windows upgrades for people and Macs

[Bill Kenworthy]

Its not RH6.2 per se, but its install (anaconda?) which checks for cpu
type (I have no idea why, as RH is i386 based) and matches it against a
stored lookup table.  With a P4, whatever check it does hangs when it
cannot get a match.  All it needed was a patch/updated installer, but
6.2 is/was basicly dead as far as RH is concerned.  Unfortunately it was
the "standard" where I was working at the time, and gcc 2.96/3.0 were
considered not suitable for developing software that had to be totally
reliable in an unattended operation.  So 7.1 was installed and it mostly
became an xterm into a 6.2 box!

BillK


On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 16:41, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > I was wondering how "current" I should go with regard to Linux
> > compatibility.
> Thats what I love about PCs. A lot of things are backward-compatable, 
> and there's even a fair degree of forward-compatability in well-written 
> software. You should have no problems. I'm very suprised that RHAT6 
> fails on a P4 actually, it should just install i386 kernel by default 
> and everything should be doozy. Weird.
>