/etc/sysconfig/kernel

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

On 2/17/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 08:24 +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> > What concerns me, however, is that its quite possible in the near
> > future an updated kernel is released by Fedora and that would
> > over-write my default kernel. So I'd like to know what steps I can
> > take to prevent this ...
>
> Updated kernels are installed in addition to existing ones, up to a
> point.  There's a YUM plug-in that lets you specify how many kernels
> will stay on your system.  I bumped mine up to keep four at all times.

Is there something I can set so that yum never installs updated
kernels, but simply informs me that there's one available?

Regards,
Rakhesh