From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: The kernel for i586 architecture is missing from the distribution. When installing on a Pentium machine, the i386 kernel is installed, which is definitely inoptimal. The only .i586 is kernel-smp, which isn't the best choice for usual machines, and isn't installed anyway. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install RHL-7.3 on an i586 machine. 2.Do "rpm -qi kernel|grep Size" 3.Do "rpm -qip <PATH_TO_DIST>i386/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-2.4.18-3.i386.rpm|grep Size" Actual Results: Size : 29228505 License: GPL Size : 29228505 License: GPL Expected Results: Obviously that must be something different. Additional info: That problem was already present in 7.2 (but *not* in 7.1). While the absence of .i486 kernel is tolerable, there are lots of Pentium machines, which will live for long time. Maybe the problem is that "rpm -ba --target i586 kernel-2.4.spec" builds only kernel-smp, but not regular kernel package.
errata kernels have added this kernel back