<quote who="Mick Boda"> > It seems a shame to stick with an unoptimised i386 package
Not really, but for your kernel it's a bit more significant than with other packages. Don't get caught up in the optimisation propaganda. > redhat have an optimised -athlon' kernel which I think uses i686 which is > actually written for pentium processors and i586 is pentium and K6, but a > K6 and XP processor are worlds apart. When I do a search for 2.4.20 kernels available in debian, I get: $ apt-cache search ^kernel-image-2.4.20 kernel-image-2.4.20-1-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on 386. kernel-image-2.4.20-1-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on Pentium-Classic. kernel-image-2.4.20-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.4.20-1-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. kernel-image-2.4.20-1-k6 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III. kernel-image-2.4.20-1-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on AMD K7. kernel-image-2.4.20-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on AMD K7 SMP. kernel-image-2.4.20-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on 386. kernel-image-2.4.20-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on Pentium-Classic. kernel-image-2.4.20-686 - Linux kernel image 2.4.20 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.4.20-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.20 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. kernel-image-2.4.20-k6 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III. kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on AMD K7. kernel-image-2.4.20-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on AMD K7 SMP. kernel-image-2.4.20-speakup - Linux kernel binary image for version 2.4.20-speakup I would suggest installing the kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 package. - Jeff -- GU4DEC: June 16th-18th in Dublin, Ireland http://www.guadec.org/ "Python amazes me for its concision. The current prototype is all of 900 lines of code, yet it contains a lexer, parser (recursive descent), core language interpreter, and parallelizing process spawner." - Raph Levien on Rebar -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
