Re: [Dri-users] compilation problems

[Jens O. <je...@tu...>]

Bryan,

I'm not an expert at kernel installs.  That said, you can try grabbing
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.18-tar.bz2 and put
it at /usr/src/linux-2.4.18

Forget about the 2.4.18 patch.

Bryan Tarantina wrote:
> 
> Jens,
> 
> Thanks for the info... I guess I will learn how to
> manually upgrade my kernel! :)
> 
> Hopefully this will be the last question...
> 
> I am having some trouble with the patch utility...
> I followed the kernel How-to from Red Hat and copied
> the compressed patch file to the dir:
> 
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> and executed the command:
> zcat patch-2.4.18.gz | patch -p0
> and instead of applying the patch (like the how-to
> specifies) it asks for the file to patch to.
> 
> So I did a little research on linuxheadquarters.com
> and tried this (in the same dir as above):
> 
> gunzip patch-2.4.18.gz
> patch -p1 < patch-2.4.18
> 
> and got the same prompt.  How do I apply this patch?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bryan
> 
> --- Jens Owen <je...@tu...> wrote:
> > Bryan Tarantina wrote:
> > >
> > > Jens,
> > >
> > > I am actually not sure if it is my kernel
> > version... I
> > > am a little concerned about this output from the
> > > install script...
> >
> > Bryan,
> >
> > This is exactly the same error message I got when I
> > first tested the
> > install script on minimally installed RH 7.2 system.
> >  Installing the
> > kernel sources resolved the problem.
> >
> > We also just recieved a report where this was
> > working fine for a guy
> > running 2.4.18
> >
> > --                             /\
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> > Springs, Colorado
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