Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

Dňa Saturday 31 May 2008 16:27:46 Vahis ste napísal:
> Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > * Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-05-31 14:22]:
> > > I've just installed 11.0 RC1 on an old Pentium II with 384Mb RAM.  The
> > > installer chose to install an SMP+PAE kernel, which I find pretty
> > > unusual? Any thoughts on why?
> >
> > Because your processor *has* PAE. PAE is not only more than 4 GiB
> > physical address space but also the "no execute" bit. The "default"
> > kernel is also SMP (since openSUSE 10.2, IIRC) because there's no "smp"
> > kernel. I bet that you didn't notice any difference between "default"
> > and "pae".
> >
> >
> > Bernhard
>
> I noticed that if I update beta3 to RC1 with zypper dup it updates the
> installed  kernel-default to the latest one.
> If I boot from RC1 DVD and update, the pae kernel gets installed though
> there is kernel-default installed in the system.

If you boot DVD, YaST will select the best suited kernel for your system using 
a bit more complicated logic (based on available memory, NX support, etc). 
Using zypper, satsolver simply keeps the packages but upgrades to the newer 
versions (basically).

Stano
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