On 14/07/2008, Antti J. Huhtala <ahuhtal4 at welho.com> wrote: > > Looks like "Custom Kernel" HowTo survived "the > idiot test" by me. One question though: when installing the rpms as the > last step (rpm -ivh kernel-*.rpm), I get "error: can't create > transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000". That means I should do it as > root, doesn't it? Perhaps the HowTo could mention this even if it might > be reasonably obvious that only root can install kernels... Done. :-D. The relevant line now reads: "Make sure that you install those rpm files (as *root*) using either *rpm -ivh kernel-*.rpm* or *yum localinstall kernel-** ." Thank you for your careful attention to details, Antti. Alan. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20080715/3e6e879c/attachment-0004.html>