Re: Installation support

[Andreas B. <and...@mu...>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:11:09PM +0100, Michael Born wrote:
> bash-2.04# zcat ieee1394-2.2.17-20001012.gz | patch -p1
> can't find file to patch at input line 4
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?

-p1 strips the first part of the path (the linux directory).  You have
to be in the linux source directory...

 yes, the links  /usr/src/linux-2.2 and
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.orig exist and point to the
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.17 or /usr/src/linux-2.2.17.orig
> directory.

...which in your case means "cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.17" and only then run
the patch command.

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