Install Older Kernel

[Rick Stevens]

Yang Xiao wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:13:43 -0400, Yang Xiao <yxiao2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:09:02 -0500 (CDT), Satish Balay
>><balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Yang Xiao wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>I haven't tried this, can I force install an older version kernel rpm?
>>>>I tried to install using rpm -ivh and it wouldn't let me saying a
>>>>newer version is installed already. I need to install the 2.6.7 kernel
>>>>so in case the 2.6.8 craps out, I can fall back to it. I know I can do
>>>>this if I uninstall 2.6.8, but it's a pain.
>>>>Many thanks,
>>>
>>>use:
>>>
>>>rpm -ivh --oldpackage kernel-XX.rpm
>>>
>>>Satish
>>>
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>>
>>great, many thanks for the fast reply.
>>
>>Yang
>>
> 
> 
> Is it possible to do this directly using YUM ?

Uh, nope.  YUM = "yellowdog updater modified", not "yellowdog unupdater"
;-)

You'll need to download the RPM and "rpm -ivh --oldpackage" it manually.
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