Johnny Ljunggren Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Hello I've got two computers that essentially have the same hardware, but there are some small differences. When installing, one of them will get the desktop kernel and one will get the server kernel. What is the rationale for choosing one or the other? I assume it is hardware related but what parts? Johnny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 RAM. 4GB or more of RAM gets you the server kernel. This was previously applied to x86-64 as well as i586 but it doesn't actually make sense, so in 2009 this will only be the case on i586. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Ljunggren Posted September 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 (edited) Thanks for the input! Hmm, that's odd since both of the machines I'm working on come with 2GiB of RAM. free shows the same thing on both. No extra swap either. There is also a laptop-kernel included so there have to be other rationals as well. What parts of the installation is responsible for this selection? I'd assume it is possible to read the source code to figure this out. Edited September 26, 2008 by Johnny Ljunggren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 There may be some other heuristic trying to detect server hardware, I wasn't aware of it, though. I don't know which bit of the installer code it's in, off hand. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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