Kernel 386 installed instead of 686

[Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 22:25 +0200, Filipe Bonjour wrote:
> I have tried several other distros before though, and there is something
> that I find strange with Breezy: The install program installed
> linux-image-2.6.12-8-386 (upgraded to 9-386 since) instead of
> linux-image-2.6.12-8-686. It's the first time I see a distro not install
> the kernel compiled for a P4. I have a Dell Inspiron 9200 with a Pentium
> M 1.7 GHz.
> 
> Is this normal? Did I miss an install option?

I'm not a dev and am only guessing, but linux-image-2.6.10-5-686 is 15.8
Mb and linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10-5-686 is 4.6 Mb. That's about
20.5 Mb for a single kernel flavour.

Now let's say the ubuntu cd ships with support for :
- 386
- 686
- 686-smp
- linux-k7
- linux-k7-smp

I'm guessing that would take about 5 * 20.5 Mb ~~ 100 Mb on a single
install cd .. lots of space.


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Regards.

Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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