Hello Family, I have a kickstart process that has been working for a while and wanted to have a newer kernel install vs the default one for RHEL4 and when I switched (replaced) the kernel-2.6.9-5.EL.i686.rpm with kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm in the packages directory it complains of course that the former kernel is missing. I can't seem to find where I can implicitly state that version of the kernel. My package list, as I inherited the kickstart engine, has standard pacakage addons and at the top of the package list file, two entries @ Core @ Base plus filenames such as, but not limited to... glibc glibc-common glibc-kernheaders glibc-headers glibc-devel cpp gcc libstdc++ libstdc++ gcc-c++ compat-db and I need to find the syntax to add the following file... kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm I tried adding a line like this and it did not seem to grab the above mentioned file... kernel-smp Thanks for any consideration to reply to this. -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert."