nfsroot problem

[William Hooper]

Damir Anicic said:
> Thanks to Andy Green & William Hooper, but I found somewhere in Fedora
> notes that Fedora binaries are optimized for Pentium Pro, but would work
> for Pentium, too.

Actually they are optimized for i686, but only using i386 instructions...
with the exception of the packages that are built for a different arch
(kernel, glibc, etc.).

> Now the question arises, how do I install Fedora as i586 binaries,
> because I do not intend to recompile glibc, SysVinit and whatever other
> packages which I would need (X11, ssh, openmotif...).

If you have a spare machine you can just "--force" the i586 rpms for the
packages you need and see if it causes any trouble (it has in the past
because of a bug in some RPM uninstall scripts).  I believe there was also
some discussion about adding a switch to the installer to force arch, but
I don't know if it made it into the release.

You can find out what RPMs are needed by doing either:

grep i686 /var/log/rpmpkgs

or

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{ARCH}\n' | grep i686

Changing i686 as appropriate.  I think you will find that glibc, kernel,
and openssl are the only ones you need.

-- 
William Hooper