On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 09:45 -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > I will likely be installing the x86_64 FC6 DVD release on > a new dual Xeon quad core system next week. However, I have > noticed at least one of our machines with i386 FC6 installed > has network problems under the new 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 kernel. > Is there some way that I can force 'yum update' to skip that > kernel release when I do the initial 'yum update' on that > newly installed machine? I would like to be able to force it > to install the previous 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 kernel release > instead. Thanks in advance for any information. > Jack I cazn only give you possibly half the answer. If you do: yum --exclude="kernel*" update then no kernel package will be installed. To install an earlier package in seems to me that there is a yum add on package that will do that but I can't come up with its name. Of course it is always possible to download the kernel package from a mirror or kernel.org and install it. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
