I didn't see this in this covered exactly in the kernel howto. What I would like to do is save my old kernel 2.0.34 until I'm sure that the newly compiled kernel works. I have downloaded two patches for the kernel to make it 2.0.36. Here is my /usr/src:
/usr/src$ l total 14011 drwxrwsr-x 4 root src 1024 Feb 16 10:35 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Jan 26 10:19 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Dec 9 05:02 kernel-headers-2.0.32/ drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1024 Feb 9 10:09 kernel-source-2.0.34/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 20 Feb 9 07:46 linux -> kernel-source-2.0.34/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 21 Dec 9 05:18 linux-2.0.32 -> kernel-headers-2.0.32/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 20 Feb 9 07:46 linux-2.0.34 -> kernel-source-2.0.34/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 7014087 Jul 13 1998 linux-2.0.35.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 7269221 Nov 15 23:50 linux-2.0.36.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 134 Feb 16 09:21 old-tree.tar.gz >From what I understand I need to apply the new patches before I compile the kernel. What I've read in the howto says that if I unpack the patches they will go into, linux -> kernel-source-2.0.34/ I really don't need to apply the patches to this kernel. I would like to apply the patches to the kernel I am going to compile only, which if I am understanding correctly should be, linux-2.0.34 -> kernel-source-2.0.34/ which I guess will become 2.0.36. How do I set this up so I can compile 2.0.36 only? This is my first time so I may not be thinking about this correctly. Thanks, Kent
