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• Download the red hat rpms for your kernel. you can see what your current kernel is using 'uname -a'

  Linux tiger.flamingtext.com 2.4.9-31 #1 Tue Feb 26 07:11:02 EST 2002 i686 unknown
  

  So I'm using a single cpu kernel on an i686, so goto updates/i686 to get the latest kernel.

  You may need other packages but basically as of red hat 7.2 you can just do: rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.9-31.i686.rpm

  When I upgraded from 2.4.9-21 to 2.4.9.31, I also upgraded modutils: modutils-2.4.13-0.7.1.i386.rpm

  Note that this will not make the kernel the default kernel the next time your boot. you need to change /etc/grub.conf (assuming you are using the grub boot loader, which I like). To set the default, change the default=1 to be the correct one (they are in order). I also changed the timeout to be timeout=30, because I have a laptop and often want to pick and choose which OS to boot.

  As far as I can see, you no longer need to make the image files required if you have scsi disks. As long as you are using the grub boot loader.

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