Yum update the latest Fedora 4 Kernel

[Min Chen]

Yes, the newer kernel 2.6.14 is taken after reboot.  Is yum only available
when connecting to internet?  I run "yum list kernel*" without internet
connection and got "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: livna" (I did yum
clean all before it)

Min

On 12/3/05, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/3/05, Min Chen <mcfreemind at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi -
> >  Just want to get the latest fedora 4 kernel.
> >  The kernel version 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 keeps the same after I run "yum
> > update".
> >  Then I run "yum update kernel-i686 kernel-devel-i686" and found that
> there
> > are two versions of the installed packages for kernel.i686 and
> > kernel-devel.i686: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 and 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.  Could
> anyone
> > give any guide on how to get the latest FC4 kernel?
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >  Min
> >
>
> Did you go through with the yum update?  If you did, just reboot and
> select the 2.6.14 kernel from the menu.  By default yum does not
> replace an older kernel with a newer one.  After you reboot into the
> newer kernel and find that operation is satisfactory you can remove
> the older kernel using "rpm -e kernel-2.6.13.xxx".  It is advisible,
> however, keep at least one older version in the event there is a bug
> with the new kernel. The kernel-devel package is required if you need
> to build custom modules for the 2.6.14 kernel.
>
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