Re: still unable to get kernel source

2000-08-14 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 02:27:26PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:21:43PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > > > Dumb question: should all the documentation within > > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package be .gz files? Is there an easier way to view > > all the documenation here w

Re: still unable to get kernel source

2000-08-14 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:21:43PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > Dumb question: should all the documentation within > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package be .gz files? Is there an easier way to view > all the documenation here without having to gunzip them first? > I think zless displays either gzippe

Re: still unable to get kernel source - solved

2000-08-14 Thread Spinfire Magenta
on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:56:42PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman spewed forth on stone tablets: > After reading your previous mail I was going to suggest that maybe you > have a corrupted bzip2, or corrupted RAM. I'm glad it's not the RAM! Most RAM problems manifest themselves during compilation, so y

Re: still unable to get kernel source - solved

2000-08-14 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:55:28PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > My problem: I could never decompress any kernel source file I > downloaded without it aborting with errors. > > My solution: I uninstalled the bzip2 package and then reinstalled it. > That fixed the problem, so I'm on to xconfig, which

Re: still unable to get kernel source - solved

2000-08-13 Thread John Reinke
My problem: I could never decompress any kernel source file I downloaded without it aborting with errors. My solution: I uninstalled the bzip2 package and then reinstalled it. That fixed the problem, so I'm on to xconfig, which seems to work now... Thanks for the help. John

Re: still unable to get kernel source

2000-08-13 Thread John Reinke
Well, this is what I was doing, but I still have the same problems, please see below: On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:03:21PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > Okay, I've tried getting the kernel sources from different places, > > decompressing the files in d

Re: still unable to get kernel source

2000-08-13 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:03:21PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > Okay, I've tried getting the kernel sources from different places, > decompressing the files in different ways, and finding the files so I can > even start to configure a kernel. > > I've done it before, but I guess all the files were