Package: debian-installer Severity: normal
debian-installer selects and does not allow changing the 486 kernel. This processor supports a 686 kernel, and also the 486 kernel has some drawbacks such as not supporting more than 1GB of RAM. It showld detect the processor and install by default the corresponding kernel. Though it can be changed later with: # aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686 below is the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo with this processor: processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : VIA C7-D Processor 1500MHz stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 1499.990 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm nx up pni xtpr rng rng_en ace ace_en ace2 ace2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en bogomips : 3002.89 clflush size : 64 power management: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
