Reversing a Kernel Upgrade (?)

[Irena & Richard Jenkins]

Hi there!

My desktop machine is an iMac running YDL version 2.0.  It has given 
me excellent service until I foolishly contemplated running the rpm 
upgrade to install the alternative kernel 2.4.4.  You see I was 
looking for increased USB support for a printer and a 'superdrive'.

The rpm upgrade went quite well after I manually setup the xwindow 
configuration ... but now it's giving me error messages and refusing 
to run kppp.  I am off the 'net on that machine!  Basically some of 
my machine's software will have to be upgraded to work with a 2.4 
kernel..


My difficulty is in restoring/downgrading to the 2.2.19 kernel.  Is 
there a way to acheive this without further damage to my system?  I 
want to remove the 2.4.4 kernel, re-install the 2.2.19 kernel and 
resume my working with the beast.  I don't want to lose all my emails 
... so a complete re-install is not the way forward.

Thinking about this in the bath the other day I reasoned that if I 
remove the 2.4.4 kernel using rpm ... everything will come to a 
complete halt.  Can I then use the install disk to re-insert the 
wanted kernel??

Any suggestions?

Also any suggestions for using the 'superdrive' with 2.2.19?


TIA

Richard
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Irena & Richard Jenkins                                      VK1NDV  &  VK1RJ
Canberra,  AUSTRALIA
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