>>>>> "t" == tron <Nathan> writes: t> Talk about being jerked around, for one if the smp kernel is in t> indeed with the redhat 8 distr then why cannot the installer t> install the packages? They don't ship an SMP kernel for i586, which it appears that you have. They did ship such a kernel with 7.3. It is still possible to build an SMP i586 kernel from the SRPM, but this is turned off by default. I don't know why. You can always keep the old kernel; it should run just fine. There's not all that much difference between 2.4.18-10 from 7.3 and 2.4.18-14 from 8.0. - J<