patching kernel 2.6.5

[Mark Haney]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:07, Alan Brown wrote:
> Hello from Newuserland!
> 
> I've tried to do my homework (Fedora-list archives, web searches, HOWTOs, 
> etc) on this, but haven't come up with an explanation or solution.  I 
> recently installed Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.5-1.358, and before doing 
> anything else, want to patch the source and compile the kernel to bring it 
> up to date.  

Is there any reason why you want to update the kernel in this way? 
Other than for just the experience of using patch, etc, why not just
download the latest for FC2?  Gets you the latest kernel without all the
patching.


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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 
15:17:05 up 7:11, 2 users, load average: 2.09, 2.75, 3.00