Re: uncompressing kernel
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Jake,
> i was wondering if someone could help me. i need to install sound
> modules into the kernel (2.2.15) and i do have the kernel-source, but it
> is compressed in a .bz2 format. i am new to this and my last kernel was
> gzipped which i know how to handle. also right now i only have
> /usr/src/ directories and was wondering if when i uncompress the kernel
> source will it create the linux directory (/usr/src/linux), or do i need
> to make it. any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated.
The following should uncompress and extract the kernel-source
into /usr/src/linux.
cd /usr/src && tar fIx kernel-source-2.2.15.tar.bz2
Yours sincerely,
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