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Why doesn the installer automatically choose the appropriate kernel to install (for example an i686 kernel instead of the generic i386)?

April 26, 2017appropriate automatically generic install installer Kernel

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Why doesn the installer automatically choose the appropriate kernel to install (for example an i686 kernel instead of the generic i386)?

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The netinst CD image includes only the generic i386 kernel, so if you’re using that you will always have install the proper kernel for your system manually after the installation if you want an optimized version. Including all the kernels on the netinst CD would use too much space.