Thanks.  I'm downloading the Athlon SMP now.

I understand - and very much appreciate - the amount of work it takes to do 
this so I salute Russell.  It's a shame RH doesn't add XFS as it's file 
system.


> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> I just looked at this again.  I know why I picked what I did.  It was the
>> SGI ISO that does what RH's CD 1 does - do the install and hopefully
>> merge
>> the XFS stuff in with the standard install.  I would have thought that
>> since it knew what architecture I had that it would have built or used an
>> the proper XFS kernel for an AMD.  RH's CDs are for any architecture and
>> will create a kernel for it so I assume that  the SGI iso will do the
>> same.
>>  Am I wrong?
>> 
>> If I get the kernel below how do I integrate it into the install?  I have
>> a clean system I'm trying to install with XFS and avoid converting later.
>> 
> 
> Should be as simple as rpm -ivh the Athlon kernel rpm. Once you verify
> that it will reboot and run properly, then rpm -e the x86 kernel rpm.
> SGI builds a semi generic installer iso for installation, and kernel
> rpm's for the Athlon, but building the installer iso is a fair amount of
> work and Russell just doesn't have time to build an Athlon image at the
> moment.
> 

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