Obviously, I need a lot of clue here. Perhaps I can trade :-P Karanbir Singh wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Right now my base kernel is at: 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL and I have this feeling > >> that is quite behind the current rev. >> >> I cannot figure out how to get kernel.i686 to upgrade. I can't even >> seem to get yum or yumex to list the package name for the current kernel >> rev. >> >> > > first, check for excludes - and then you should be able to yum install > kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.i686 - which should bring in the right version. > Maybe we are already past this version, but the above install had "nothing to do". And I don't see where I have any excludes. not in my /etc/yum.conf or any of the repo files. I suspect what I need to do is create that local repository already. I see a thread on downloading updates, but I remember some earlier threads on YAM. Considering all the hung updates, I may very well want to have a local repro....