From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Description of problem: The advanced/custom installation should enable you to choose the processor instead of forceing autodetection. So you could install RH on a Pentium III [monitor, keyboard, mouse, CD-ROM drive, removable HDD] and later run it on a 486 [no monitor, no keyboard, no mouse, no CD, only the removable HDD] - currently such an install will succeed, however the kernel and programs will be for a P3, obviously this will simply not work on the 486 [nb. it gives no errors, just freezes (if kernel is for 686 it freezes after LILO loads it; if you install a custom kernel compiled for 486 then system boots but fails to run init (probably /bin/sh is for 686) and just sits there not frozen but not much besides SysRq that you can do (obviously init=/bin/sh fails to...)] How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See description. Additional info:
We are in a feature freeze at the moment. Deferring to a future release.