Hello,
In trying to get a new kernel with (hopefully newer drivers) I D/L'd a
file called
linux-2_2_3_tar.gz (over 12 Meg) and copied it over to another machine
that will be using it. Both machines have Win95 on them and that's what
was used to move the files across my mini-network. On the target
machine, when running in Win95, the filename is as above. However, when
I look at that same file when booting the machine up in Linux, it's now
called 'linux-~1.gz' and neither 'tar' or 'gzip' will recognize it.
Is there something I'm missing here as far as maintaining the filenames
under Linux when looking at the DOS partition?
This is but one part of what has been a frustrating weekend...starting
with the desire to install new PCMCIA drivers so I can use my LinkSys
network card (EC2T) when running Linux. The only form I can find these
new drivers is source code, which, according to what I'm reading, means
the kernel needs to be recompiled. Now there's a task for the
faint-hearted :) !!! Over Saturday and Sunday, I must have stepped
through what appear to be the correct procedures (I'm running RedHat
5.1) for re-compiling the kernel, at least a dozen times. Each time I
end up with some little glitch that prevents me from proceeding...the
last glitch was trying to write the 'zdisk' to the floppy. I couldn't
find where the system stuck the 'vmlinuz' file that I assumed it
created!
Any help is welcomed.
Thank you,
Michael
