Re: [sheflug] Choice of Gentoo kernel version?

["Wonkey Donkey" <wonkey_donkey [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Humphrey" <prh [at] gotadsl.co.uk>
To: "sheflug" <sheflug [at] sheflug.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [sheflug] Choice of Gentoo kernel version?


> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 22:58, Wonkey Donkey wrote:
>
>> This may sound obvious or not, but have you tried booting the install cd
>> and cat'ing the /proc/cpuinfo ?
>
> Good idea. It says family 15, model 2, stepping 4. Now, which kernel fits
> that best? I'm going for i686, and in make menuconfig, Processor type and
> features, Processor family, I think I'll specify the Pentium-4 family (I
> have to specify something, Alex).
>
> Well, actually I have and all seems well so far.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> -- 
> Rgds
> Peter.
>

I've just had a quick peek at the processor options. For celeron they are:

Pentium-II/Celeron(pre-Coppermine)
Pentium-III/Celeron(Coppermine)/Pentium-III Xeon
Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)/Pentium-4 M/Xeon

If you can identify which one you have exactly, it should be straight 
forward.

Looking through the gentoo forums, somebody with the same processor was 
indeed using i686.

Steve. 



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