[sorry Peter, meant to reply to list] On Monday 24 May 2004 9:55 am, peter Nikolic wrote:
On Sunday 23 May 2004 17:02, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 23 May 2004 17.50, Bruce Marshall wrote:
2) rm -r linux (removes sym link to current kernel source but does not erase the main directory)
3) tar xjvf /ftparea/linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2 (extract the new kernel source into /usr/src/
4) ln -s linux-2.6.6/ linux (make a new symlink)
No no no. /usr/src/linux should be reserved for the kernel source/headers used to compile glibc, not for the kernel du jour (Linus Torvalds).
You can put the kernel sources you're compiling anywhere, I put them in $HOME/src/
you gotta be joking kernel automatically goes to /usr/src/ linux****** when you unpackit so where do you get this strange malformed idea from ?. Duh
Having followed the rest of this thread, that might be what happens, but it is not necessarily right. About 5 minutes before your post arrived, I right clicked on linux-2.6.2.tar.bz2 in Konqueror, selected "extract to..." and extracted to ~/home/vince/kernel and compiled. What's more, I did this under 9.0, I want to try the kernel for running 9.1, which won't compile it and I don't want to touch my 9.0 setup, where I am very happy with my 2.4 kernel. And I get a clean compile, and I know that doing it not as root, I can't touch anything. Malformed idea? Duh? Anders' link to Linus' email explains. It is sound. Vince