On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:48:39PM -0600, Erich Noll wrote: > rpm -Uv kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i686.rpm Don't do this. Always rpm -i kernel rpm's, as using -U can really break things badly if something goes wrong. > , but it complained about 3 files belonging to > kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm that I had previously installed. If it > would help I could get the names of the files but I suspect they're not > germane. I also tried rpm -iv but it complained about the same 3 > dependent files from the i586 rpm. > > Finally, I tried to rpm -e kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i586.rpm but it > complained about (approximately 10) dependent rpms that I presumably > would have had to -e then -i. > > Would there be any (performance?) advantage to installing the i686 > kernel rpm or is rpm trying to prevent me from stupidly harming the > correct configuration? If there would be some advantage to getting the > i686 kernel on the machine, how do I go about doing it safely? A Pentium II should be using the 686 kernel. If you had updated using yum or up2date, it would have done all this automatically for you the correct way. Dave
