On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 08:24 +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > What concerns me, however, is that its quite possible in the near > future an updated kernel is released by Fedora and that would > over-write my default kernel. So I'd like to know what steps I can > take to prevent this ... Updated kernels are installed in addition to existing ones, up to a point. There's a YUM plug-in that lets you specify how many kernels will stay on your system. I bumped mine up to keep four at all times.