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To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
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Subject: Re: Installing kernel 2.4 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org> 
   of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 21:41:47 PDT." <20001107214147.B8542@vger.timpanogas.org> 
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:05:56 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org> said:

[...]

> Your way out in the weeds.  What started this thread was a customer who
> ended up loading the wrong arch on a system and hanging.  I have to
> post a kernel RPM for our release, and it's onerous to make customers
> recompile kernels all the time and be guinea pigs for arch ports.  

I'd prefer to be a guinea pig for one of 3 or 4 generic kernels distributed
in binary than of one of the hundreds of possibilities of patching a kernel
together at boot, plus the (presumamby rather complex and fragile)
machinery to do so *before* the kernel is booted, thank you very much.

Plus I'm getting pissed off by how long a boot takes as it stands today...

> They just want it to boot, and run with the same level of ease of use
> and stability they get with NT and NetWare and other stuff they are used
> to.   This is an easy choice from where I'm sitting.

Easy: i386. Or i486 (I very much doubt your customers run on less, and this
should be geneic enough).
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