Hi Rac gurus 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 to this operating system it is failing as [root@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 I already have a 2.1 advanced server on another partition with 9.2 rac running on it, This operating system along with the firewire is running fine. i dont know how to get this solved,Can some please let me know how to get this resolved Any help will be greatly appreciated thanks in advance Arun ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l