Hi folks, I'm preparing to install the VMWare Server on FC6... took a look at the archives, and saw that folks are having a couple of problems, vis-a-vi kernel i686 vs kernel-devel i586, and/or having the xen kernel installed. I have both 2.6.18-1.2798-fc6xen and 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen installed. So my game plan is to move from fc6xen to plain old fc6, then add in the kernel-devel kernel. Given that this is my work-a-day box, I'd rather not mess up anything.... My grub/menu.lst looks like this: title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen) root (hd0,0) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen.img title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen) root (hd0,0) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img So it seems to me that I only have the xen kernels installed. A post on the VMWare list said: From the command line login as root, type the following to remove the xen kernel rpm -e Kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.nnnn.fc6 Reboot My questions are (I don't want to try this blindly) 1. If I remove the xen kernel, won't I be left with NO kernel? :( Or does removing the xen kernel somehow magically revert to the non-xen kernel? 2. I've seen two choices for installed in the kernel-devel: "rpm -e kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6" or "yum install kernel-devel" I assume that I'll grab either i586 or i686 depending on what the results of question #1 are. I've been updating the noobie way, via K Menu | System | Software Updater. :) Is there a preferred method (rpm v yum) given how I have been updating? Thanks, Whil Hentzen Milwaukee
