On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Peter Paluch wrote: > Hello, > ====== > > > I just discovered that when I uncompressed 2.2.1 tarball, it installed to > > the linux dir which was a symlink to my 2.0.36 dir, so I guess that is the > > major problem. > > ;-) Yes, that surely caused a perfect mess. > > > Still, how do I apply to patch for kernel 2.2.1? > > Assuming from your previous mail you have patch in bz2 format. You have to > use bunzip2 (not simply bunzip) to unpack the patch - maybe you should > install the bzip2 package. Then go to /usr/src directory, and issue this > command > > patch -p1 < your_decompressed_patch_file
If you use the patch-kernel script it will handle bz2. Put the patch-2.2.1.bz2 file in /usr/src and issue: linux/scripts/patch-kernel Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
