Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:44:19 +0100 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: Cannot compile my kernel due to unpredictible situations: |
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On 2001.01.12 Gregg Lloyd wrote: > the right 2.4 kernel?? (Kernel howto talks about going to /usr/src/linux and > start compiling..but current /usr/src/linux is a link to my current 2.2.5 > kernel !!!) > So you have just wrote kernel2.4 OVER your kernel2.2.
Kernel tarballs always untar and give a directory named 'linux'. So suppose you have a setup like: ls /usr/src: linux -> linux-2.2.5 linux-2.2.5
If you untar linux-2.4.0.tar.gz in /usr/src, it writes over 'linux' that points to you 2.2.5. What I usually do is rm -f linux (is just a link) gtar zxf linux-2.4.0.tar.gz (gives a new REAL directory named 'linux') mv linux linux-2.4.0 ln -s linux-2.4.0 linux
I don't know why kernels are not tarred as linux-X.X.X, but there will be a reason, I suppose... (that will ease very much everyone's life).
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Linux werewolf 2.4.0-ac5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 10 23:36:11 CET 2001 i686
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