Of course! Since it's not really installed, there's no harm in removing. Thanks for answering a stupid question. The kernel update is now proceeding. Olaf seth vidal wrote: >On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 16:20, Olaf Olson wrote: > > >>Garrick, >> >>Thanks for your assistance. >> >>I should have told you all of the story, before asking for advice, >>however, instead of trying to avoid the embarrassment of what I have done. >> >>I had a power surge, which knocked out portions of my installation >>(Yellow Dog Linux, 3.0.1, on a PPC, G3 B&W). I managed to recover a >>great deal of my installation, but, improper backups resulted in only a >>partial restore. I had used yum to upgrade the kernel from 2.4.22-2a to >>2.4.22-2g. Unfortunately, my restore brought back the 2a image. I can't >>use yum to reinstall the 2g kernel, because yum still believes I have >>it. In reality, of course, the kernel isn't there and still needs all of >>the simple attention and automatic configuration that yum so easily >>provides. >> >>So... what I am really looking for, I guess, is a way to whack yum on >>the head so that it gets partial amnesia and forgets that I ever managed >>to update the kernel. Is there a way to do that?? >> >> >> > >So you're not running the 2.4.22-2g kernel but the rpmdb thinks it has >it. > >okay >rpm -e kernel-2.4.22-2g > >and then yum update kernel > >-sv > > >_______________________________________________ >Yum mailing list >Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > > >
