Re: [WBEL-users] New to Whitebox. Kernel Upgrade?

On Thu July 13 2006 11:24, Terry Henderson wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Terry Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 7/13/06, Karanbir Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hermann Thomas wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > I am new to whitebox because there is some software which will
> > > > run better with rat hat rather than with suse which I am use
> > > > to. The problem is the kernel. Is there any possibility to get
> > > > the kernel 2.6.9-22 . With whitebox 4 came the 2.6.9-5. How can
> > > > I upgrade to Kernel 2.6.9-22?
> > >
> > > the latest stable kernel is 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL
> > >
> > > - K
> >
> > That being said, I suppose if you just do
> > # yum update
> > You'll end up with kernel-2.6.9-34
> > Right?
>
> Default install is:
> kernel-2.6.9-5
> and up2date or yum will bring you to:
> kernel-2.6.9-34
>
> So, I was wrong.
> If you really need kernel version 2.6.9-22, you will need to download
> and install it manually.  (Which should be no real problem though.)
> But, anyway, sorry for my misinformation, (and thank you Karanbir for
> correcting me).

rpm -ivh ftp://mirrors.pbs.com/pub/mirrors/whitebox/4/en/obsolete-updates/kernel-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

should do it... (or pick another mirror).

OT: Should previous kernels even be put in "obsolete-updates"? They are,
after all, always installable, right?

jerry