Older FC4 kernels

[Roger Heflin]

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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Pemberton
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 5:19 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Older FC4 kernels
> 
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> 
> On 1/27/06, Roger Heflin <rheflin at atipa.com> wrote:
> 
> 	Hello,
> 	
> 	I have a need for one of the older FC4 updated kernels 
> specifically
> 	a 2.6.13 variant.   We had previously download part of 
> it, but not all of
> 	it, and it is no longer on the web/ftp sites that I can find. 
> 	
> 	The reason for needing it is that 2.6.11 fails to 
> install (has certain
> 	issues with the hardware), and 2.6.14 fails with a 
> certain vendor
> 	driver that we need to have work, but 2.6.13 will work, 
> but I need the 
> 	non-smp rpm so I can take the modules from that to regenerate an
> 	initrd for a network install.
> 	
> 	Any ideas where to get a older kernel version that is 
> no longer on
> 	the download locations?
> 	
> 	                        Roger 
> 	
> 
> 
> `yum install "kernel-2.6.13*FC4"` should do what you want.

No.

#1 is: I need to build a network install, which is a lot more complicated
that that, and the machines in questions *WON'T* boot on the default
2.6.11 kernel.

#2: The older kernels aren't on the ftp site anymore, and you generally use
the non-smp kernels to build a network install.

                       Roger