>> Hmm, why only supported as i586? I could imagine that quite some firewalls >> are "worse" than Pentium, ie. 486 or maybe even 386. Or aren't there that >> many "legacy" machines around anymore? > > Hmm, > you are right with all that. > In order to support all the 386-486 we should have recompiled the kernel > with math-coprocessor emulation and that modifies all the boot images. > We had no time to deal with all that for the moment and the installation > team had even less time for that as they deal with 8.0 now. (I brought this up once before on the Cooker list for the regular Mandrake distro and never got a response, so I'll try the same thing here..) I'm curious if it's at all possible to compile JUST the installation process for i386/i486 processors and have ONLY the RPMs be architecture-dependant. The reason? *I* can make my own RPMS from SRPMS. That part is fairly easy. But I don't have the know-how to redo the installation process for another architecture. (I'm sure it can't be that overly complicated, but still, after reading the rest of this e-mail, you should see my point.) This would allow us people who want to run the MandrakeSecurity distro (and I'd like to see the same for Cooker/Mandrake) on older/slower boxes without waiting for you guys (or even requiring you guys) to redo all the RPMS yourselves. I have a 486 laptop that has been SCREAMING for Mandrake for over a year now. Yes, there's a 7.0/i486, but the pcmcia image doesn't work, so I'm out of luck. I have enough processor power and disk space to recompile the needed RPMS on another box and host them, if only I could get the installation process to run. It's obvious that the installation program will run on i386/i486 processors, why not just stick with it and only change the RPM architecture? Throw away the i586 images! (Does processor optimization really help the installation go THAT much faster?) Don Head SAIR LCA, CIW-P, i-Net+, Network+, A+ Systems Administrator [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Web Designer [ 1 314 650-4056 ] [ AIM - Don Wave ] [ ICQ - 18804935 ] [ Yahoo - Don_Wave ]
