Hi, I'm sure this is a really stupid question, but when I type in the line: gunzip < ~/ext3-***extraStuffHere***.gz | patch -p1 as in the installation guide, it tells me that the patch is not a proper gzip file. What do I do??? Also, when it says "make menuconfig", does the menuconfig file appear once the patch is ungzipped, or should it be there already? I'm kinda worried because it says that later on you should build the kernel, but all the HOW-TOs I've seen say that the existing kernel is somewhere in /usr/src/linux/, but I don't have a linux directory in /usr/src. Is this a problem (btw, I'm running Mandrake Linux). Ugh, I hate being a newbie... Thanks in advance! Cheers, Tom.
Thomas Pocock <psyttgp@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:> gunzip < ~/ext3-***extraStuffHere***.gz | patch -p1 > > as in the installation guide, it tells me that the patch is not a proper gzip file. What do I do???The problem is that your browser has automatically uncompressed this file without removing the .gz part. You can apply the patch by doing: patch -p1 < patchfile.gz in the linux kernel source directory.> all the HOW-TOs I've seen say that the existing kernel is somewhere in > /usr/src/linux/, but I don't have a linux directory in /usr/src. > Is this a problem (btw, I'm running Mandrake Linux).Then you need to install the kernel source which I'm sure is available from mandrake's FTP or on their CD. After that, apply the patch. -- André Dahlqvist <andre.dahlqvist@telia.com>
Thomas Pocock wrote:> > as in the installation guide, it tells me that the patch is not > a proper gzip file. What do I do??? >Tom, I was able to unzip it by appending ".gz" to the file name.> > Also, when it says "make menuconfig", does the menuconfig file > appear once the patch is ungzipped, or should it be there already? >You do the make menuconfig (or make xconfig) after you've applied the patch.> > I don't have a linux directory in /usr/src. Is this a problem >I don't believe Mandrake installs the kernel source by default, but it should be on one of your install CDs. Install with RPM. Or download a fresh version. Art
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