Hi, I was a bit confused when I saw that yum was about to install an i386 UP kernel and an athlon SMP kernel on a Dual Pentium III server :-/ Relevant output: [...] I will do the following: [install: kernel-smp.athlon] [install: kernel.i386] [update: php-pgsql.i386] [update: php.i386] [update: proftpd.i386] [update: nfs-utils.i386] [update: php-devel.i386] [update: sendmail-doc.i386] [update: sendmail.i386] [update: sendmail-cf.i386] Is this ok [y/N]: Exiting on user command. [root@back01 root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : Pentium III (Katmai) stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 551.234 cache size : 512 KB Physical processor ID : -1070161728 Number of siblings : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips : 1095.84 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : Pentium III (Katmai) stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 551.234 cache size : 512 KB Physical processor ID : -1070158656 Number of siblings : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips : 1099.39 [root@back01 root]# rpm -q rpm yum rpm-4.1.1-1.7x yum-2.0-2.rh7.3.fr This is a Red Hat Linux 7.3 server (yup, freshrpms.net!) with rpm 4.1.1 from rpm.org and a custom rebuilt yum 2.0 to get a recent yum-arch. Matthias PS: Please, don't cc me, I'm on the list! -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Raw Hide 20030718 running Linux kernel 2.4.20-20.1.2013.nptl Load : 0.21 0.39 0.32