fedora install on transmeta

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 22:00 -0500, jbk wrote:
> John Boland wrote:
> > i'm about ready to rip out the little bit of hair i have left.
> > i'm trying to install F9 on a i586 transmeta laptop.
> > is there an easy way to specify the architecture to use during the install?
> > googling around, i found a few recommendations to install an earlier version
> > (fc5) and then upgrade.
> > is this true?
> > is/are there any other ways to install f9 or f10 on an i586?

Hrm. Offhand, I'm not sure what the heck people do. I *thought* we
actually used the i586 kernel for 32-bit installs (installing the i686
on the actual system where appropriate), but it sounds like its now the
i686 kernel... File a bug!

> I'm not sure that you can do it. You may if you want to 
> recreate the iso with a kernel you compile from source with 
> the correct switches.

Fedora builds an i586 kernel, no need to build one. Creating an iso of
your own for this is quite easy. Time-consuming, but easy, at least once
you get a bit familiar with pungi and/or revisor. If worst comes to
worst, give me a shout and I could probably throw one together.

> You may see i686 abandoned soon also 
> in Fedora. That last statement may not be true, but, Fedora 
> is supposed to be the somewhat working cutting edge.

That statement is so far from true, its mildly amusing. Sure, some of us
would *like* all i686 hardware to die and only have to worry about more
modern x86_64 hardware with PAE and hardware virt extensions... But
we're not *that* "cutting edge" cut-ourselves-til-we-bleed-to-death
stupid. Note that both Intel and AMD are still shipping *new*
32-bit-only hardware (Intel Atom, AMD Geode). i686 support definitely
isn't going anywhere.


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Jarod Wilson
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