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Re: patching kernel versions



On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:18:39AM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> I have a potato system, upgraded to r3, but not yet replaced the kernel.
> I'd like to compile a 2.2.19 kernel. Being on a slow modem connection
> I don't want to download the whole source but got patch-2.2.18.bz2 and
> patch-2.2.19.bz2.  I'm not clear how to apply this patches without
> messing up with the apt-get database.  How do I proceed?
> 
> Thanks for your time,  Robert Epprecht.

Unless you have the source for 2.2.18 which I'm guessing is the kernel
you are using now your going to have to download the source.  You don't
have to worry about the apt-get database in this instance.  At least I
don't. 
kent

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