John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > I am downloading the latest kernel (2.2.12) from kernel.org. I am
> > putting it on a MDK 6.0 system that has 2.2.9-27mdk on it. When I untar &
> > bzip it will it won't overwrite the other kernel will it? Will it put it in
> > /usr/src/linux/2.2.12? When I go to build the kernel I need to go to the
> > directory with the version of the kernel I want to build to run xconfig and
> > all don't I not just /usr/src/linux right? Is there a argument I need to
> > add to put things in the correct place or can I use kpackage? I don't know
> > much about tar.
> >
> You probably have a symlink to /usr/src/linux which points
> to 2.2.9-27. The tarball *will* overwrite 2.2.9-27 files.
> John
No. The symlink will get overwritten, but not the 2.2.9-27 directory.
tom
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