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I then tried:  modprobe -a cdrom.o (and ... -a ppp.o and a few others
related to ppp) and whenever I do I get a message:
undefined symbol: __bzero

When I try to mount my cdrom, I get a message indicating:
no support for iso9660 in kernel

When I try to mount an hpfs partition, which used to automount upon bootup
I get:
fs type hpfs not supported

What would have affected all this?  My kernel IS a RH 5.2 kernel (not THE
latest...I decided to wait for 2.2.0 and this was part of the reason I
upgraded/updated a number of rpms) AND I have downloaded many of the rpms
from the rufus Redhat 5.2 updates section.  How do I fix this?  I cannot
conveniently connect to the internet to download older rpms (except from
OS/2 but this is a major pain to have to reboot to another os, save to a
common DOS partition, reboot to linux and then rpm the file) and I cannot
mount my cdrom so I can rpm install my RH CD rpms.

I don't understand why my kernel, which supported all these things before
(ppp, hpfs, cdrom iso9660, etc, as modules) suddenly can't handle them.
What rpm(s) would screw these things up?

patrick