Hi all, I have suse 7.0 pro installed in an nice but very old toshiba portege 300CT, because of performance issues and also because of hardware compatibility wich is very good. But I need to make the upgrade in subject because of usb ethernet support. I downloaded kernel 2.4.21 rpm (first one with usb ethernet support I need) from suse site (8.1 I think). I followed suse instructions to upgrade the kernel with it, but got this as a result of rpm install (important note: I have already checked md5sums for the rpm and they are good): root@proteus:/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386 > rpm -ivv --nodeps --force k_deflt-2.4.21-168.i586.rpm D: counting packages to install D: found 1 packages D: looking for packages to download D: retrieved 0 packages D: New Header signature D: Signature size: 149 D: Signature pad : 3 D: sigsize : 152 D: Header + Archive: 22178636 D: expected size : 22178636 D: opening database mode 0x42 in /var/lib/rpm D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages D: installing binary packages D: getting list of mounted filesystems D: New Header signature D: Signature size: 149 D: Signature pad : 3 D: sigsize : 152 D: Header + Archive: 22178636 D: expected size : 22178636 D: package: k_deflt-2.4.21-168 files test = 0 D: file: /boot/Kerntypes-2.4.21-168-default action: create D: file: /boot/System.map-2.4.21-168-default action: create D: file: /boot/config-2.4.21-168-default action: create D: file: /boot/initrd action: create ...... (lots of files, mainly modules.... always with : create) and finally, D: file: /lib/modules/scripts action: create D: running preinstall script (if any) ++ shopt -p nullglob ++ : + old_shopt=shopt -u nullglob + shopt -s nullglob + eval shopt -u nullglob ++ shopt -u nullglob + rm -f /boot/vmlinuz.suse + rm -f /boot/initrd.suse k_deflt-2.4.21-168 GZDIO: 1 reads, 8192 total bytes in 0.000 secs unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic0 <------- what does that mean ? as it can't be a corrupted rpm dowload ? I am sure HD is sane, because the Suse 7.0 pro has been installed from scratch only few days ago without a single error. does cpio need an upgrade ? can the original rpm be corrupted ??(I doubt so) can this have something todo with using ReiserFS for / partition (was new in 7.0) (note: my current kernel is the default pentium optimized one, and I backed up /boot before trying this; for anyone interested in making this, reccomend also backing up other important stuff; as you can see the script started removing something to the make the upgrade and if not successfull you can get in trouble) Thanks for any feedback Joao