2.6.10-1.737_FC3smp kernel source?

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:11 PM
> To: Otto Haliburton
> Cc: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: 2.6.10-1.737_FC3smp kernel source?
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:00:07 -0600, Otto Haliburton
> <ottohaliburton at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-
> list-
> > > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:48 PM
> > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > > Subject: 2.6.10-1.737_FC3smp kernel source?
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >    A late in the day update brought me a new kernel for my wife's new
> > > machine. I need to get source code for the kernel so that I can
> > > rebuild ndiswrapper. (Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.)
> > > Where can I get source code for this to put under /usr/src?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/SRPMS.  I think this
> the
> > total link but you can go to download.fedora.redhat.com and figure it
> out.
> > 1. rpm -ivh kernel?????
> 
> Otto,
>    The address was close and I found the kernel. However I don't like
> the results of the next step:
> 
> [root at dragonfly mark]# whoami
> root
> [root at dragonfly mark]# pwd
> /home/mark
> [root at dragonfly mark]# ls
> Desktop
> kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.src.rpm
> [root at dragonfly mark]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.src.rpm
> error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> [root at dragonfly mark]#
> 
> Why can't rpm create the source directories?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> _______________________________________________
the only thing I can thing of is that you are not logged in as root, and you
have to be root.  From what you sent it looks as though you are but you can
cd to /usr/src/ and see if redhat is there it should be and if not create it
and see if that will fly