[HLUG] Re: arch & cpu number confusion

[Emon]

> I'm not an expert, but arch is the type of architecture that your software 
> packages are compiled for , cpu probably indicates the ACTUAL type of CPU 
> you have.

I see..... thanks, that was really helpful.

So the bottom line (although not technically correct) is some
thing like this...

arch=486, cpu=686 means that you at least have to have a i486
cpu to run this binary but it will run great if you have a i686
cpu, right??

One last thing; so what dose it mean when people tell me that my
kernel architecture is i386 ??
and on different note what does "noarch" mean ??

Thanks again
Emon