Matthew Saltzman wrote: > You can replace the key packages (kernel, glibc, openssl) by hand. Boot a > kernel that you don't want to upgrade, then "rpm -ivh --oldpackage > --replacepkgs kernel-XXX.i686.rpm" and "rpm -Fvh --replacepkgs > glibc-YYY.i686.rpm openssl-ZZZ.i686.rpm". Then reboot to your new kernel > and install the i686 version of your old kernel if you want. > > The --oldpackage allows installing a package older than the latest. The > --replacepkgs allows replacement of a package with another of the same > version. You want to -ivh the kernel so you don't wipe out the one you > are running. > > As always, be careful, and make sure you have backups. You might want to > wait a little bit and see if anyone flames me to a crisp for suggesting > this before you try it. I'm not going to flame you to a crisp: I was planning on suggesting that! But the Original Poster might want to try without --replacepkgs first. James. -- James Wilkinson | "Hardware simply does not work like the manual says Exeter Devon UK | and no amount of Zen contemplation will ever make you E-mail address: james | at one with a 3c905B ethernet card." @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Alan Cox
