HI everyone, I am just wondering if there is an option for the installation
of Debian to instruct it to rebuild the Kernel so that it optimize it to the
processer. The istallation CD i386 seems too old and slow and for PIV 3.6GHz
660 system.

can anyone help?
many thanks

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aherzallah <ah@herz.dk> wrote:

> HI everyone, I am just wondering if there is an option for the installatio
n
> of Debian to instruct it to rebuild the Kernel so that it optimize it to t
he
> processer. The istallation CD i386 seems too old and slow and for PIV 3.6G
Hz
> 660 system.

Unless I've seriously missed something I don't know of any distro that
offers that (except Gentoo but that's source based anyway and you have
to compile the kernel during installation). Debian offer a 686 kernel if
that helps.

There's nothing to stop you from recompiling it yourself the moment
Debian boots for the first time if you must have it compiled for a P4.
Deban makes it very easy to do.

IMHO, and from experience (i.e. I used to compile my own kernels for
Debian), you won't gain much anyway. As important as the kernel is,
don't forget that the rest of the system will be compiled for a 386.

--
Andy.

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