Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 10 November 2012 13:34:59 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel.  I
> > have been shying away for too long.
> >
> > I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far:
> >
> > http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack
> >
> > But I get errors the end of which is below.  I tried to copy and paste
> > all the error reports that Konsole gave me, but could not manage it. 
> > Advice, please!
>
> <snip>
>
> What command did you issue?

tar -xjf linux-source-3.2.tar.bz2

But it is now solved.  Stephen was right.  It was a permissions problem.

Thanks for taking the trouble to answer.

Lisi