According to Dave Wreski:
>
>
> On 13-May-98 CyberMan wrote:
> >
> > I recompiled the kernel with the Cyrix patches downloaded from
> > www.linuxhq.com and now my Cyrix PR150+ CPU is recognized as an IE86???
> > Doing a cat /proc/cpuinfo shows the corect CPU type, but uname -m shows
> > IE86.
> > Because of this starnge thing I cannot install RPM packages. I always get
> > the message that "this package is for anothe arhitecture". How can I fix
> > this problem?
>
> Get a real pentium, perhaps? :)
That would work. Meanwhile ...
>
> You can use the --force option to RPM, or check out the patch to 2.0.33
> available at:
>
> ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/2.0.34pre/patch-2.0.34pre13.gz
>
> That has a few `authorized' Cyrix patches in it, I believe..
>
I believe the problem with rpm can be fixed with a 1 line entry in
/etc/rpmrc that maps the new-fangled Cyrix identifier back onto
good old i386 architecture.
There was a posting on the rpm-list about a month ago ...
73 de Jeff
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