On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > 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. This problem is a bit different than usual, as the packages have the same release/version numbers. > > > , 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. But this doesn't really help him out of his jam... This is exactly the moment (and almost the only moment) to use "rpm --force". Boot to an older kernel (you do have an older kernel installed, don't you?), then "rpm -Uvh --force kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.i686.rpm". Then reboot to the updated kernel. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
