Re: [CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Drew
> Gentoo? What do you have against the OP? Why subject him to such madness and > unnecessary pain? :D Don't be dissin my friends over at the funny farm. :-P We likes our 36hr recompiles because the cflags on our l33t boxen weren't "just right". :-) It's actually not a bad distro, just gets a bad

Re: [CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:28:22 -0600 (CST) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > - "Marko Vojinovic" wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 December 2009 19:54:03 Jerry Geis wrote: > > > > It may be one way to do it, but that is not how xen or kvm are > > > > ordinarily set up under CentOS -- qemu has (had) the h

Re: [CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Tim Nelson
- "Marko Vojinovic" wrote: > On Tuesday 08 December 2009 19:54:03 Jerry Geis wrote: > > > It may be one way to do it, but that is not how xen or kvm are > > > ordinarily set up under CentOS -- qemu has (had) the hooks to > > > simulate the missing opcodes of some arch's, but at a > > > perform

Re: [CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 19:54:03 Jerry Geis wrote: > > It may be one way to do it, but that is not how xen or kvm are > > ordinarily set up under CentOS -- qemu has (had) the hooks to > > simulate the missing opcodes of some arch's, but at a > > performance penalty > > if there is a way to "si

Re: [CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:02:28 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is it possible to take the 686 CentOS 5, install that in virtual machine, > install a custom kernel that is the 486 flavor, take that image and > put it on a 8G CF card - insert that into a small form factor 486 cla

Re: [CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Jerry Geis
> > It may be one way to do it, but that is not how xen or kvm are > ordinarily set up under CentOS -- qemu has (had) the hooks to > simulate the missing opcodes of some arch's, but at a > performance penalty > if there is a way to "simulate" missing opcodes in the kernel - that would be grea

Re: [CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread John R Pierce
Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to take the 686 CentOS 5, install that in virtual machine, > install a custom kernel that is the 486 flavor, take that image and > put it on a 8G CF card - insert that into a small form factor 486 class > machine and have that work? > > I am hoping th

Re: [CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
When you create a virtual machine don't you have a choice of what type of processor you want and so forth? That would be the clean way to do it would it not? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" _