Fedora release notes F9

[hermouche]

It is said here >>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9preview/en_US/sn-Live.html
that live images do not work on i586 architecture. (The last line)

How do we know which architecture we have?

Thanks

red

[hermouche]

I am tring to answer at my question but i 'm not sure:

In my case, i got cpu family : 6 does it means that i belong to the i686 architecture?

[root@redhome proc]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts est tm2
bogomips : 1597.61
clflush size : 64



If it's correct, why live images does not work for the i586 architecture, does it means that they are so old !!!

Thanks

red

[leigh123linux]

They are intel CPU id codes


Dothan-1024

A 90 nm Celeron M with half of the L2 cache of the 90 nm Dothan Pentium Ms (twice the L2 cache of the 130nm Celeron Ms, though), and, like its predecessor, lacking SpeedStep. The first Celeron Ms that supports the XD bit was released in January 2005, in general any Celeron M released after that supports the XD bit. There is also a 512 kib low voltage version which is used in the Asus EEE PC.

In Intel's "Family/Model/Stepping" scheme, Dothan Celeron Ms and Pentium Ms are family 6, model 13 and their Intel product code is 80536.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron_D#Celeron_D

[hermouche]

OK leigh123, Thanks for the reply, i can go ahead for the F9 product without fear :-)

what about the i586!! they should use the DVD i guess!!

Anyway thanks again

red

[A.Serbinski]

Intel pentium-pro or newer, AMD K7 or newer. Yes, K6, K6-II, K6-III are faster than pentium pro, but they lack a few instructions (they gain a few others), which reduces their fully compatible equivalent to i586.

[A.Serbinski]

The i686 restriction is specific to the LIVECD. Install media (CD or DVD) contains i586 and i686. They are providing CD-install media this time.

OK leigh123, Thanks for the reply, i can go ahead for the F9 product without fear :-)

what about the i586!! they should use the DVD i guess!!

Anyway thanks again

red