On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:50:24PM -0500, David Curry wrote: > Welllllll, I'm back with a new .13 kernel instead of the .14 kernel I > tried earlier. > > Lost a bit of virginity on this one. All prior kernel installations had > relied on Anaconda or Up2date to handle everything. > > Had to fall back on early training when Mom and Dad instructed, "If at > first you don't succeed, try and try again!" > > Rpm just did not want to install .13 with .14 in place. So, after > attempts to get rpm to cooperate I copitulated to rpm's intransigence, > removed .14 and then installed .13. > > Nothing but grins when on reboot Grub displayed a .13 choice with no .14 > choice and reboot using the .13 kernel succeeded! > > Now I will let the system sit for a while and see if the problems I > experienced with the .14 kernel also occur with .13 Ah yes, if rpm sees a newer package installed, and you want to install an older one for testing purposes, you need to --force it. There's also an --oldpackage option, but from the manpage, it seems that's only for upgrade's, not install's. Dave
