On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
>
> > Is this because of the symlink?
> I believe so. At least it's my (limited) experience that this
> behavior occurs.
> > Can I remove the symlink so it wont
> > overwrite the 2.2.9-27?
> I don't know.
> > If this does work do I need to make a new one to
> > the sources I want to compile?
> Probably, but I don't know. :-)
> >Why is the link there?
> >
> I'm afraid my knowledge is based on unpacking a "tarball" kernel
> source this past holiday weekend (for us in the United States it was
> a holiday weekend <G>) and being surprised that it overwrote the
> source for my previous kernel. I "moved" the directory to a new name
> (2.2.12) to reflect the contents of the kernel.
> I would strongly suggest you try making a directory FOR the contents
> of the tarball and making the symlink point to that directory.
> Probably have to do an "ln -s --force" to get it to work.
> John
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