Is my hard drive thrashed?

[tokyoi at mac.com]

Dan Hensley wrote:

>[...] I ordered a new hard drive that should arrive tomorrow in case it's a
>hardware problem.  My motherboard or BIOS may also have something to do
>with it, but I'm not sure.  Right now my system is up and running
>because I built a boot floppy.  But I see another kernel update waiting
>to be installed.  I hesitate to download it because I don't know what
>kind of mess it will make with my system.
>


Say,

  man yum

and have a look at the exclude option -- if you're happy with a kernel 
you can stop yum updating it until, say, a security issue makes updating 
the kernel a good idea.

Best wishes,

Ian