Thanks, Michael. I performed those steps and see that my kernel lists as
Kernel-2.4.7-10 (i386)
Kernel-headers-2.4.7-10 (i386)
So it appears that up2date wants to give me the athlon architecture instead of the i386. I'm a bit confused since that is an Athlon processeor in the box.
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From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 7:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie: Kernel upgrade
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On Wednesday 28 August 2002 05:17 pm, Brian Lucas wrote:
> Hi again! I ran up2date on a system that has an AMD Athlon processor
> and RedHat 7.2. The update list shows a newer kernel with an
> architecture type = athlon. Beneath that, the kernel headers show the
> architecture type as i386. Neither installs as both complain saying
> that the package is for a different architecture. I am able to
> install other i386 packages without any problem.
>
> I'm guessing that the difference between the kernel and the kernel
> headers is throwing it off.
The kernel is optimized for a specific architecture, while the kernel
headers are not. This is normal.
Check which kernel you have installed with:
rpm -q kernel --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release} (%{arch})\n'
Output will be similar to:
kernel-2.4.18-5 (athlon)
kernel-2.4.18-10 (athlon)
To see all kernel related packages at once, try something like: (watch the line wrap) rpm -qa | grep kern | xargs rpm -q --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}
(%{arch})\n'
Here, I get:
kernel-2.4.18-10 (athlon)
kernel-2.4.18-5 (athlon)
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-18 (i386)
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-7.16 (i386)
kernel-source-2.4.18-10 (i386)
(kernelheaders has moved to glibc-kernheaders in the 7.3 release)
> Where can I download kernel rpms independent of up2date's list?
You shouldn't have to, but look at
ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/
Hope that helps,
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