Re: Kernel update - a very fast question

[E Nigma <enigma os2 ami com au>]

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 03:22, you wrote:
> Viestissä Maanantai 31. Joulukuuta 2001 18:59, kirjoitit:
> 
> > I'm just downloading the last stable version of linux kernel from
> > kernel.org. It's tar.gz.
> > Can you please tell me how to proceed with the update?
> 
> Unpack the archive with tar xzvf to some suitable location (_not_ 
> /usr/src/...), and read the README file that was just extracted.
> Follow the instrucitons in README.

I create /var/src, change its ownership to the account I use for kernel 
building (summer) and play there.

Others do it in their home directories, but i found some trifling differences 
in my machines' view of the time caused make to complain.






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