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- Lines: 30
- Date:
Sun Jun 13 10:20:59 1999
- Orig file:
v2.0.36/linux/README
- Orig date:
Wed Jun 26 01:05:26 1996
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.0.36/linux/README linux/README
@@ -47,7 +47,12 @@
gzip -cd linux-2.0.XX.tar.gz | tar xfv -
to get it all put in place. Replace "XX" with the version number of the
- latest kernel.
+ latest kernel. If you use GNU tar,
+
+ cd /usr/src
+ tar -xzvf linux-2.1.XX.tar.gz
+
+ is equivalent.
- You can also upgrade between 2.0.xx releases by patching. Each
patch that is released for 2.0.xx contains only bugfixes. No
@@ -75,15 +80,6 @@
can be specified as the first argument. Patches are applied from
the current directory, but an alternative directory can be specified
as the second argument.
-
- - make sure your /usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi
- directories are just symlinks to the kernel sources:
-
- cd /usr/include
- rm -rf asm linux scsi
- ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
- ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
- ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
- make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around:
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