According to Mario Melendez: While burning my CPU.
>
> Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > Do you mean you jumped a patch.?
> >
> > Now if i have understood you correctly you jumped a patch right,??, now do
> > the following and i think you will see how messed up your source code now
> > is.
> >
> > 'find /usr/src/linux/ -name *.rej'
> >
> > I think you will find plenty of them..
> >
> > Or did i completly misunderstand you.?
>
> I think there must be some kind of misunderstanding... after a good deal
> of sweating and worrying at the university terminal I came home and ran
> the find command:
>
> [root@mario root]find /usr/src/linux -name *.rej
> [root@mario root]
>
> Nothing...
>
> Which got me thinking: the file I downloaded was called
> linux-2.0.35.tar.gz and was about 6 Mb long... is it possible that I may
> have downloaded the entire 2.0.35 kernel and not just a patch and that's
> why I was able to upgrade without any problems?
linux-2.0.35.tar.gz is the whole kernel source and is the reason why
everything installed ok.
The differance between patche and kernel archives are;
linux-2.0.35.tar.gz = the complete source.
patch-2.0.35.gz = the patch from 2.0.34 to 2.0.35
>
> --
> //\/\ario //\/\elendez- TI2DLL
> ICQ #6160213
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://radioplaneta.base.org
>
--
Regards Richard.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
