Thank you! On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Andre Robatino <an...@bwh.harvard.edu>wrote:
> The Fedora 12 graphical installer requires at least 384M of RAM. If you > have less, it automatically does a minimal text-based install (a small > fixed set of packages without offering options for additional ones) > which is what you got. The confusion regarding the install discs saying > i386 is common. The i386 refers to the basearch (which includes > subarches i386, i486, i586, i686). F12 requires the i686 subarch. The > Live images are labeled i686, but the Install images are labeled i386, > even though the supported hardware is exactly the same. Many people > including myself have asked for the Install images to be labeled i686 as > well in order to avoid exactly this kind of user confusion. The > developers have a general rule, however, that images should be labeled > by basearch instead of subarch (not a requirement, obviously, since the > Live images don't follow it). I believe (someone correct me if I'm > wrong?) the purpose was to avoid the extra work of changing the image > name when the subarch changes. If that's true, it doesn't apply here, > since this particular subarch will never change again (there will never > be an i786) so i686 is now and always will be the only subarch that F12 > and above ever support. > > In any case, even if there's some benefit to using i386 in the name > during development, it would be trivial to change it to i686 at release > time. > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > >
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