On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Michael Picco wrote:
> Hello,
Hi!
> 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
Underline ("_") is very rare under Linux. At least what I see.
So it could be safe to say that you should try to rename the files you
download to windoze than copy/move to Linux. I mean put a dot instead of
underline.
> 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.
If you have vfat or fat32 on your windoze drive than you just
mounted it incorectly. You should try mount -t vfat instead of mount -t
msdos. That is the 8.3 version of the name. It looks cryptic because is
kept for backwards compatibility. In case you transported the file to a
fat16 disk, than all you have to do is copy this file and rename it the
way you wanted... linux-2.2.3.tar.gz
> 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!
Ever considered /dev/fd0???
Anyway, make won't return vmlinuz. It will return zImage or
bzImage.
Raider
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