fedora install on transmeta

[John Boland]

jarod,

thanks for the offer.
i'm looking at fedoraunity.org at the moment.
if i have deciphered the website correctly, i should be able to build a
custom install...

if that doesn't go well, i'll take up your offer.

thanks again.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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