On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 10:01:05AM +0100, Martin Roberts wrote:
> I have RH5.0 with the standard kernel (2.0.32) and I feel confident
> enough to patch it up to "35" so I can get FAT32 support (I know 34 will
> give me this, but since I have to apply 33 and 34 anyway I may as well
> do 35 while I'm at it).
>
> I downloaded the patches (patch-2.0.33.gz etc) and copied them to my
> /usr/src/ directory as guided by the howto. I su'ed to root and issued
> the command "xcat patch-2.0.33.gz | patch -p0", again as guided by the
> howto (note: I am not at my Linux box at the moment so all this is from
> memory so please don't flame me for not memorising the commands
> exactly). Anyway, I got an error message and the patch wasn't applied.
>
> I'm concerned that I'm working from the wrong directory so I'll check
> this first. So my questions are:-
> What directory should I copy the patch files to? Currently they're in
> /usr/src/.
> What directory do I need to be in to issue the commands? I followed the
> howto and I'm in /usr/src/, but the wording wasn't perfectly clear to
> me.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Martin
First of all, make sure the kernel in /usr/src/linux is from a straight kernel tarball
and not some RH special stuff.
Then this is proably the simplest way to patch it up.
put the patches in /usr/src
cd /usr/src
./linux/scripts/patch-kernel
that should be it.
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