High Energy Physics Linux (HEPL) Preview February 27, 2004
This is HEPL Linux and NOT Fermi Linux. It does NOT have most of the
Fermi Linux changes. Well it really is 2 releases in one. There is the
default HEPL install and there is the /sites/FNAL customization. The
/sites/FNAL install uses all the packages in /HEPL/RPMS/ except for the
ones in /sites/FNAL/Updates/ . HEPL Linux is just a baby, it will need
help from it's friends to grow up. This is a "proof of concept" lets make
it a real product.
We do have a small list of enhancments that we think would be good for
the HEPL community.
Add openafs and method to "configure" it
Add kerberized openssh (not with Fermi changes, just plain openssh)
What do you think? If you are interested then please join our mailing list .
Joining the mailing list does NOT imply a commitment.
Since this release of HEPL allows for site customizations see the "site"
documentation in HEPL.documentation/sites/ where there is documentation on
the FNAL site customizations.
This is based on the rebuilding of RPMS out of SRPMS's from Enterprise 3 AS
including Update 1 with the following changes.
Please read this entire document before installing. This document may make
references to "hepl30rolling". The "codename" with "rolling" in it names the
development version of our release. So "hepl30rolling" would name the
development version of "hepl 3.0.?". The idea of "rolling" is that something
that is "rolling" is moving and a development release clearly can move/change
frequently whereas a stable version does not see this frequency of change.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to hepl-devel@fnal.gov
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Table of contents
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
INSTALLATION INFO
ADDED compared to Enterprise 3
UPDATED compared to Enterprise 3
Installer modifications
/contrib
/docs
/notsupported
MISC Notes
HARDWARE SPECIFIC ISSUES
SOFTWARE ISSUES/BUGS
SUPPORT INFO
ERRATA
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HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
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The following information represents the minimum hardware requirements
necessary to successfully install HEPL LTS hepl30rolling Preview:
- Minimum: Pentium-pro class, but in reality at least a Pentium II
- Recommended for text-mode:
- Minimum of 400 MHz Pentium-II
- Minimum of 128MB Memory
- Recommended for graphical:
- Minimum of 400 MHz Pentium II
- Minimum of 128MB
- Recommended: 192MB
Hard Disk Space (NOTE: Additional space will be required for user data):
- Common "Generic Desktop" Installation : 1.5GB
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INSTALLATION INFO
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Installation Locations
Via NFS (only onsite at FNAL)
linux.fnal.gov:/export/linux/hepl30rolling/i386/
with floppy
The floppy install situation is the same as Fermi Linux 9.0.1 .
There was not enough space on just 1 floppy so RedHat redesigned the install
to have a "generic" boot floppy. With all of the device drivers on driver
floppies. There is a net , pcmcia, and a block driver floppy. With a Fermi
Linux install you will need the "generic" bootdisk.img floppy. And either
the "net" drvnet.img or the "pcmcia" pcmcia.img floppy for your network
drivers. I have modified the boot.img install floppy image to automatically
put in the nfs server and nfs install directory. To override this you can
select the original redhat choice with
linux
at the install floppy prompt.
You will have to make your own floppies from
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/hepl30rolling/i386/images/HEPL/bootdisk.img
and one of these
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/hepl30rolling/i386/images/HEPL/drvnet.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/hepl30rolling/i386/images/HEPL/pcmcia.img
To make the install floppies. Put a scratch floppy in "/dev/fd0" for
each image.
dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0
dd if=drvnet.img of=/dev/fd0 If you are making the drvnet
with cdrom
There is also a boot.iso which is small iso image which includes all the
drivers on the driver floppies and the generic boot info. This can be used
instead of the above floppies. After download you can use cdrecord to
create a cdr with this image on it.
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/hepl30rolling/i386/images/HEPL/boot.iso
Via FTP
Download floppies or cdrom as indicated above.
Copy images to floppies or cdr as indicated above.
Enter "ftp" at the boot loader prompt if you wish to install from FNAL
otherwise press return and select ftp
Via CDROM
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/iso/hepl30rolling/
hepl30rolling.022904.disc1.iso
hepl30rolling.022904.disc2.iso
hepl30rolling.022904.disc3.iso
hepl30rolling.022904.md5sum
Mirror ftp site and install via your prefered method from your mirror.
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ADDED compared to 3
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From Developer Suite
eclipse-2.1.0-22.i386.rpm
From Cluster Suite
clumanager-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm
ipvsadm-1.21-9.ipvs108.i386.rpm
piranha-0.7.6-1.i386.rpm
redhat-config-cluster-1.0.0-5.noarch.rpm
Korn shell from ATT
ksh93-2000.10.31.0-1.i386.rpm
IceWM
A small and fast window manager. Good for slower systems or
systems with not much memory.
icewm-1.2.13-2.LTS30x.i386.rpm
mpg321, xmms-mpg123
Because of licensing reasons RedHat did not include MP3 support
in their distribution. While this does not fill all cases, this
does allow some of the more popular music players to use mp3's.
mpg321-0.2.10-fr2.i386.rpm
xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm
MISC
Added these rpms because they are important as RedHat removed them.
anacron-2.3-29.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
gv-3.5.8-23.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
ncurses4-5.0-12.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
readline41-4.1-17.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
xcdroast-0.98a14-2.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
jpilot-0.99.6-1.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
sndconfig-0.70-2.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
cdda2wav-2.0-11.i386.rpm dependency of xcdroast
RedHat added the following rpms as part of Update 1
elfutils-libelf-devel-0.91-3.i386.rpm
jaf-20030319-1.i386.rpm
javamail-20031006-1.i386.rpm
junit-3.8.1-1.i386.rpm
mtx-1.2.18-1.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-pl-7.3.4-8.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-server-7.3.4-8.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-test-7.3.4-8.i386.rpm
pine
RedHat removed these because of license issues, but we need it
pine-4.58-2.i386.rpm
SerialConsole
This script makes all the changes necessary to send
console output to both the serial port and the screen. This
also creates a login prompt on the serial port and allows users
to login at this prompt.
serialconsole-2.0-0.5.noarch.rpm
Yum -- From Duke University
yum-2.0.4-1f1.noarch.rpm
yum-conf-hepl30rolling-1.noarch.rpm
This latest version of yum has been optimized to work with
groups of packages. It can even work with Fermi's workgroups.
yum grouplist
list all the groups available
yum grouplist hidden
list all the groups including hidden ones
yum grouplist <groupname1> <groupname2> ...
list all the packages in the groups
yum groupupdate <groupname1> <groupname2> ...
update all the packages in the groups
yum groupinstall <groupname1> <groupname2> ...
install all the packages in the groups
NOTE: The groupname's are often more than one word so it is
best to put them in quotes. Example: "Kernel Development"
yum 2.0.4 is a minor bug fix and feature upgrade release.
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UPDATED compared to 3
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KERNEL
Another errata kernel .
kernel-2.4.21-9.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-9.EL.i386.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.21-9.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.21-9.EL.i386.rpm
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
Note the "unsupported" kernels. RedHat decided that they "could not"
support all of the device drivers in the kernel. So the driver
modules that they do not support are contained in the "unsupported"
kernel rpms. For more info see the release notes.
RedHat EULA required changes
anaconda-images
redhat-artwork
redhat-logos
anaconda-help
indexhtml
RedHat requires that the following rpms be changed as part of
their EULA (End User License Agreement)
gstreamer
Added "Requires" of coreutils so that it will install during the install
gstreamer-0.6.0-5f1.i386.rpm
gstreamer-tools-0.6.0-5f1.i386.rpm
nedit
Nedit was found to have a bug preventing it from opening files.
Rebuilding from source did not clear up the problem. It also
showed a comment that STRONGLY suggested just getting the binaries
from nedit.org. We followed this advice, and we packaged the
binaries from nedit.org, into an rpm
nedit-5.4-1.i386.rpm
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Installer modifications
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Included "generic" installer graphics
RedHat requires us as part of their "EULA" that we replace
the images in "anaconda-images" with our own.
anaconda-images
Anaconda (installer)
Fixed a bug that RedHat introduced in loader2/method.c which broke
specifying the install method on the command line.
Added code to support "site" customizations which include
Custom installer kernel
Custom installer(anaconda) including graphics
Added RPMS
ability to select packages to install by default via "comps.xml"
Modified/replaced RPMS
see /sites
anaconda-9.1.1.HEPL-7.4.i386.rpm
anaconda-runtime-9.1.1.HEPL-7.4.i386.rpm
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/contrib/
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/docs/
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RPMS of the documentation .
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/notsupported/RPMS/
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RedHat decided that they could not support all of the rpms that may be
included in a SRPM. So I have included those here. They are NOT supported by
RedHat and thus are NOT supported by us. They are included here for
completeness. These are installable via yum.
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MISC NOTES
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Upgrades from prior versions.
UPDATES are NOT supported for all versions of HEPL . This is NOT
something that we changed. Future releases may support upgrading
from HEPL 3.0.1 to future version of HEPL 3.0.x.
UPDATES will NOT work from anything except RedHat AS 2.1.
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HARDWARE SPECIFIC ISSUES
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Cisco Aironet 350 wireless ethernet card
If you install Windows patch xxx in addition to upgrading the windows
driver it also upgrades the firmware in the Cisco 350 wireless card.
Info from Cisco follows. The "good" firmware is 4.25.30 or 1.6.7 or 1.5 .
If it is 5.20.17 then it is the BAD firmware. I got these firmware
versions from the Cisco website.
"Recommended repair is a firmware down-grade of the Cisco Aironet 350
PCMCIA network interface card as Cisco has not released a updated Linux
for the upgraded firmware as of yet."
Xircom ethernet
Will panic the kernel.
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SOFTWARE ISSUES/BUGS
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XFree86 and ATI
After the successful install (again using the graphical X-windows
install) and after what appears
to be a successful boot up, I get a blank screen and just sits there.
Both the Radeon and Nvidia driver in this XFree86 4.3.0 release does
not detect that you are using the digital port of flat panel monitors.
The easy thing to do is plug into the analog port until you can get
past the install.
sgi_fam
Error messages /var/log/secure such as
Jan 22 12:33:33 systemname xinetd[25122]: FAIL: sgi_fam libwrap
from=<no address>
Jan 22 12:33:33 systemname xinetd[3819]: START: sgi_fam pid=25123
from=<no address>Jan 22 12:33:33 systemname xinetd[25123]: FAIL:
sgi_fam libwrap from=<no address>
Only solution so far is to change /etc/hosts.allow to allow sgi_fam
with
fam: ALL
This could be a security risk so you must decide.
redhat-config-packages
This rpm only installs packages via cdrom. It is not useful.
It does NOT work so do NOT try to use it. Use yum instead.
It is useful. It is only included here because rpms have dependencies
on it and I do not want to change those to remove the dependencies.
/usr/X11R6/lib
The "final link" to each of the libraries is missing.
Should be
libX11.so.6.2 <- libX11.so.6 <- libX11.so
But is
libX11.so.6.2 <- libX11.so.6
Solution is to install Xfree86-devel. This rpm will make the
missing links.
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SUPPORT INFO
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Mailing List
hepl-devel@fnal.gov
archived at listserv.fnal.gov
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ERRATA included
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Updated (contains all of Update 1) compared to original 3
released on October 26, 2003. Newest version is what is included.
samba-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm
samba-client-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm
samba-common-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm
eclipse-2.1.1-4.i386.rpm
pwlib-1.4.7-7.EL.i386.rpm
gaim-0.75-3.2.0.i386.rpm
slocate-2.7-3.i386.rpm
ethereal-0.10.0a-0.30E.1.i386.rpm
ethereal-gnome-0.10.0a-0.30E.1.i386.rpm
anaconda-9.1.1-7.RHEL.i386.rpm
anaconda-runtime-9.1.1-7.RHEL.i386.rpm
binutils-2.14.90.0.4-26.3.i386.rpm
elfutils-0.91-3.i386.rpm
elfutils-devel-0.91-3.i386.rpm
elfutils-libelf-0.91-3.i386.rpm
gdb-6.0post-0.20031117.6.i386.rpm
popt-1.8.1-4.4.i386.rpm
rpm-4.2.1-4.4.i386.rpm
rpm-build-4.2.1-4.4.i386.rpm
rpm-devel-4.2.1-4.4.i386.rpm
rpm-python-4.2.1-4.4.i386.rpm
up2date-4.2.5-1.i386.rpm
up2date-gnome-4.2.5-1.i386.rpm
kernel-2.4.21-9.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-9.EL.i386.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.21-9.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.21-9.EL.i386.rpm
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-9.EL.i686.rpm
redhat-release-3AS-7.i386.rpm
cvs-1.11.2-14.i386.rpm
kdepim-3.1.3-3.3.i386.rpm
kdepim-devel-3.1.3-3.3.i386.rpm
libpcap-0.7.2-7.E3.1.i386.rpm
tcpdump-3.7.2-7.E3.1.i386.rpm
ant-1.5.2-23.i386.rpm
ant-libs-1.5.2-23.i386.rpm
compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.123.i386.rpm
compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.123.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.123.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.123.i386.rpm
cpp-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
devlabel-0.42.05-2.1.i386.rpm
gdb-6.0post-0.20031117.5.i386.rpm
gcc-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
gcc-c++-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
gcc-g77-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
gcc-gnat-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
gcc-java-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
gcc-objc-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
hotplug-2002_04_01-20.2.i386.rpm
httpd-2.0.46-26.ent.i386.rpm
httpd-devel-2.0.46-26.ent.i386.rpm
hwdata-0.101.1-1.noarch.rpm
initscripts-7.31.9.EL-1.i386.rpm
kdegames-3.1.3-3.2.i386.rpm
kinput2-canna-wnn6-v3.1-12.EL.i386.rpm
kudzu-1.1.22-1.1.i386.rpm
kudzu-devel-1.1.22-1.1.i386.rpm
libf2c-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
libgcc-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
libgcj-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
libgcj-devel-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
libgnat-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
libobjc-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
libstdc++-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
libstdc++-devel-3.2.3-24.i386.rpm
mdadm-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm
mod_ssl-2.0.46-26.ent.i386.rpm
modutils-2.4.25-11.EL.i386.rpm
modutils-devel-2.4.25-11.EL.i386.rpm
netdump-0.6.11-3.i386.rpm
netdump-server-0.6.11-3.i386.rpm
net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.1.i386.rpm
net-snmp-devel-5.0.9-2.30E.1.i386.rpm
net-snmp-utils-5.0.9-2.30E.1.i386.rpm
nss_ldap-207-5.i386.rpm
openssl-0.9.7a-24.i386.rpm
openssl-0.9.7a-24.i686.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.7a-24.i386.rpm
oprofile-0.5.4-13.i386.rpm
oprofile-devel-0.5.4-13.i386.rpm
pstack-1.2-3.EL.1.i386.rpm
quagga-0.96.2-10.3E.i386.rpm
redhat-config-kickstart-2.3.20-1.noarch.rpm
redhat-config-network-1.2.59-1.noarch.rpm
redhat-config-network-tui-1.2.59-1.noarch.rpm
redhat-config-packages-1.2.9-1.noarch.rpm
redhat-config-xfree86-0.7.7-1.noarch.rpm
redhat-release-3AS-1.1.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-7.3.4-9.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-contrib-7.3.4-9.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-devel-7.3.4-9.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-docs-7.3.4-9.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-jdbc-7.3.4-9.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-libs-7.3.4-9.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-python-7.3.4-9.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-tcl-7.3.4-9.i386.rpm
shadow-utils-4.0.3-15.i386.rpm
strace-4.5.1-1.EL.1.i386.rpm
up2date-4.2.2-1.i386.rpm
up2date-gnome-4.2.2-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-doc-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-tools-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-twm-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-44.EL.i386.rpm
ypbind-1.12-5.i386.rpm
lftp-2.6.3-5.i386.rpm
gnupg-1.2.1-10.i386.rpm
freeradius-0.9.3-1.i386.rpm
rsync-2.5.7-1.i386.rpm
ethereal-0.9.16-0.30E.1.i386.rpm
ethereal-gnome-0.9.16-0.30E.1.i386.rpm
glibc-2.3.2-95.6.i386.rpm
glibc-2.3.2-95.6.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.3.2-95.6.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.6.i386.rpm
glibc-headers-2.3.2-95.6.i386.rpm
glibc-profile-2.3.2-95.6.i386.rpm
glibc-utils-2.3.2-95.6.i386.rpm
nptl-devel-2.3.2-95.6.i686.rpm
nscd-2.3.2-95.6.i386.rpm
iproute-2.4.7-11.30E.1.i386.rpm
quagga-0.96.2-8.3E.i386.rpm
kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.i386.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.i386.rpm
kernel-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.athlon.rpm
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-4.0.1.EL.i686.rpm