On Sunday 24 December 2000 19:57, you wrote:
> Gerald Williams wrote:
> > There are some xfree86 rpms for the i686 architecture on the
> > unsupported site. My question, and I believe it was asked before with
> > no reply that I saw, are they okay to use on a pentium based machine?
> >
> > When I try to install them, I get the error message that they are for
> > the wrong architecture. I believe I can use --ignorearch to bypass
> > this, but has anyone tried this?
> >
> > Awaiting anyones reply before I screw-up royaly.
> >
> > Merry Christmas all...
> Don't know if you can use them but if you want to use this
> rpm -Uvh <whatever.rpm> --nodeps --force
> Watch out though it can screw things up rather well
>
> Cheers
>
> Stefaans
Thanks to all who have replied. On my box, which has an AMD K6 2+ 450 cpu,
the i686 rpms do not work. There are a lot of error messages/warnings and
several of the packages core dump during the install. I backed out okay and
reinstalled the 4.0.1 rpms from the CD. I will wait...(g) As they say, "I
was lucky this time".
Thanks again to all
Jerry
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Gerald Williams
Words Matter! Bangkok, Thailand
