[Rhel3kernels-users] canot install package kernel-2.4.21-15.ELorafw1.i686.rpm on redhat Enterprise 3

[Manish Singh]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:00:20PM -0800, ARUN CHAKRAPANI RAO wrote:
>  Hi
> I have a redhat 2.4.21-20.EL installed on a i684
> machine and trying to configure the firewire drive for
> 10g rac
> when i try to install the firewire kernel downloaded
> from oss.oracle.com to this operating system it is
> failing as
> [root at linuxtest1 root]# rpm -ivh
> kernel-2.4.21-15.ELorafw1.i686.rpm
> Preparing...
> ########################################### [100%]
> package kernel-2.4.21-20.EL (which is newer than
> kernel-2.4.21-15.ELorafw1) is already installed

Use rpm -ivh --oldpackage

-Manish