Many thanks to Mark, Daniel, John and Alan. Looks like all I needed (other than the original kernel eratta) was the modutils update.
I was fortunate this was a small chain to chase, in that this system is not connected to the net, and therefore I can not do the easy tricks such as up2date :-( Thanks to all! Paul ========================================================= From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.2 upgrade In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 16:47, Post, Mark K wrote: > Paul, > > I and many others have been down that road. It's one of more irritating > things, probably why someone adapted Debian's apt-get tool for RPMs. Check > out http://linuxvm.org/archives/200201.html and look at the second entry for > 01/21/2002. Alan Cox talks about apt-rpm there. Or if you are using Red Hat network up2date packagename will do the thinking for you too