RE: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- CORRECTION

["Glen S Mehn" <glen@squaretrade.com>]

One thing to know about unix is that, basically, everything is a file. It
seems odd that /usr/src/linux would end up being a regular (non-dir) file,
but.. Whatever. it's fixed now.

I've moved the discussion off of the three lists that you posted to, and put
it just on 'debian-user'. It could just as well go to 'debian-laptop', but,
as many people are subscribed to all the newsgroups, they odn't want to get
messages 3 or 4 times. Nettiquette asks that one normally not crosspost to
multiple newsgroups. Just so you know.

the kernel source directory should contain a listing of files that looks
something like this: (it'll change slightly, based on where you got your
kernel source from):

COPYING        MAINTAINERS  README.Debian   arch     include  kernel  net
CREDITS        Makefile     REPORTING-BUGS  drivers  init     lib
scripts
Documentation  README       Rules.make      fs       ipc      mm

irf you got the source from kernel.org, then it probably untars into a
'linux' directory. You can skip the mv command, and go straight on to the
make <something>config command.

good luck.

glne


-----Original Message-----
From: eDoc [mailto:e.net@verizon.net]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:56 AM
To: Glen S Mehn; debian-user@lists.debian.org;
debian-laptop@lists.debian.org; progeny-debian@lists.progeny.com
Subject: Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- CORRECTION


> You need to untar the source:
> root@hostname:/usr/src# tar -xvzf <kernel-source-whatever-filename>
> After that, change the directory name to 'linux', so that your
uncompressed,
> untarred sources are in /usr/src/linux:

The usr/src/linux directory that was missing before has been created,
apparently
for some reason a reboot was necessary for it to show up.

Problem:

I only have linux-2.4.12.tar.gz file in /usr/src ...

"find -name *2.4.12*" only finds

"linux-2.4.12.tar.gz file in /usr/src"

What is wrong, please?

I have tried everything I have found in man, doc, etc.  Nothing seems to
successfully extract the 2.4.12 kernel-source everyone keeps referring to.

Thanks!  Doc


> root@hostname:/usr/src# mv <kernel-source-dirname> linux
>
> root@hostname:/usr/src# cd linux