[Preston] Downgrade RedHat!

[Steve Taylor]

Hi Phil

> Does anyone know of a way to downgrade redhat, I have a server with 7.3
> installed and due to some dumb aculab driver I need to downgrade to 7.2.
> This would be simple enough but I have to do it remotely through telnet :(

You mean ssh :)

> and it would be good to keep the partitions intact as the data on them is
> important.
>
> Any advice, pitfalls or tips, greatly appreciated, otherwise I guess I'll
> have to wait for the aculab patch!

Surely you only need to downgrade the kernel, modules, and/or glibc rather
than the whole operating system?

And that should be simply achieved with rpm -U --oldpackage.

Steve