Re: Using yumex to install new kernel and keep old kernel

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On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 23:58 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I'm running FC6. There are two kernels installed: 
> 
> [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qva | grep ^kernel
> kernel-2.6.22.1-32.fc6
> kernel-headers-2.6.22.1-32.fc6
> kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6
> 
> The problem is, wireless doesn't work with the newer kernel (2.6.22.1-32
> - something to do with a conflict between wireless-tools and wireless
> extensions and versions which I could not resolve) but it does work with
> the older kernel (2.6.20-1.2962) and all the previous kernels. There is
> a newer kernel available: 2.6.22.2-42. I would like to install
> 2.6.22.2-42 and keep 2.6.20-1.2962. Yumex wants to remove 2962. I've
> tried to remove 32 but when I try this it wants to remove the
> kmod-ndiswrapper that goes with 2962 (because of dependencies - which
> seems weird to me). Is there some way to do this with yumex or yum? Is
> it possible to have all three kernels installed? (I used to be able to
> have many kernels installed in previous versions of FC, not just two.)
> I've also tried unchecking the kernel-module plugin for yumex but this
> seems to have no effect.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated. I would like to try the new kernel to
> see if wireless will work but I don't want to lose a working kernel.
> 
> Rick B.
> 
The tokeep= option in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf should
control how many kernels are kept after installing a new kernel.
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