[expert] Stupid Question Time

2001-10-31 Thread dmyhand
Hi Group: I am progressing in the patch work. Can someone point me to the location of the kernel on my system? The patch asked which file I wanted to patch, and I assume that would be the kernel, but I cannot find that on my 8.0 system. Thanks, again, Dennis in Victoria Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Stupid Question Time

2001-10-31 Thread Alan W Jurgensen
Remember: There are no stupid questions; Only stupid people asking questions! hah. kiddin. Kernel is always at: /usr/src/linux I always start with a fresh kernel from: kernel.org It is a tar extrating to current dir linux dir. cd /usr/src ; tar xzvf /tmp/kernel*gz Ill

Re: [expert] Stupid Question Time

2001-10-31 Thread Michael Osten
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:23:19 -0500 dmyhand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Group: I am progressing in the patch work. Can someone point me to the location of the kernel on my system? The patch asked which file I wanted to patch, and I assume that would be the kernel, but I cannot find that

Re: [expert] Stupid Question Time

2001-10-31 Thread dmyhand
Thanks Alan and Michael: I had always heard there are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots around. Peace, Dennis Alan W Jurgensen wrote: Remember: There are no stupid questions; Only stupid people asking questions! hah. kiddin. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Stupid question

2001-02-22 Thread dany allard
Marsden MacRae wrote: I'm having a "duh" moment herehow do I tell which version of Mandrake I've installed? Augh! Stop Laughing M check /etc/mandrake-release That should do it

[expert] Stupid question

2001-02-22 Thread Marsden MacRae
I'm having a "duh" moment herehow do I tell which version of Mandrake I've installed? Augh! Stop Laughing M

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2001-02-22 Thread goldengull.net administrator
cat /proc/version -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marsden MacRae Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Stupid question I'm having a "duh" moment herehow do I

Re: [expert] Stupid question

2001-02-22 Thread Ken THompson
On Thursday 22 February 2001 11:27 am, you wrote: Marsden MacRae wrote: I'm having a "duh" moment herehow do I tell which version of Mandrake I've installed? Augh! Stop Laughing M check /etc/mandrake-release That should do it Or uname -a -- Ken Thompson Electrocom

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-11-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Larry Marshall am Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:55:50PM -0500: If you don't have the kernel source you need to download the rpm and install it. But you won't need the full kernel source. The kernel headers rpm is good enough. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage:

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-11-01 Thread Gerald Williams
On Wednesday 01 November 2000 04:11, you wrote: Argh. I feel dumb. I just did a clean install of 7.2. I noticed that when I have tried to compile something (for example, the latest Wine SRPM) that it has been crashing with a file not found error. I have narrowed the problem down to the

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-11-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Gerald Williams am Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:07:32PM +0700: Uh...another dumb question. You are root when trying to compile the SRPM?(G) He shouldn't have to be, if that was what you were suggesting. About all of the mandrake SRPMs are made so that a normal user can rebuild them.

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-11-01 Thread Larry Marshall
So sprach Larry Marshall am Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:55:50PM -0500: If you don't have the kernel source you need to download the rpm and install it. But you won't need the full kernel source. The kernel headers rpm is good enough. Interesting to know (I've never had need to compile

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-11-01 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 04:29:12 Chris Spencer wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2000 19:57, you wrote: Why do you need /usr/src/linux in the $PATH? Chances are the files that Finding includes has nothing to do with PATH. are missing are in some devel package. Do a web search for the missing

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-11-01 Thread Chris Spencer
On Wednesday 01 November 2000 02:06, you wrote: To the original poster: Is there a sym link from /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ ? If not, add it, and you should be set. Alexander Skwar Yes, that symlink is there. Everything appears to be in order I just have no idea

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-11-01 Thread Chris Spencer
Check if you have /usr/include/linux symlinked to /usr/src/linux/include/linux werewolf:~# ll /usr/include/linux lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 26 Jun 8 02:09 /usr/include/linux - ./src/linux/include/linux/ Same with /usr/include/asm. Or you can have both dirs "real" instead of

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-11-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Sarang Lakare am Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:57:43PM -0500: or something.. remember that the directory structure has changed a bit with 7.2.. now its FSH complient. Well, yes, but the location of the kernel header files did not change. To the original poster: Is there a sym link from

[expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Chris Spencer
Argh. I feel dumb. I just did a clean install of 7.2. I noticed that when I have tried to compile something (for example, the latest Wine SRPM) that it has been crashing with a file not found error. I have narrowed the problem down to the fact that /usr/src/linux is not in the path, or include

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
I just did a clean install of 7.2. I noticed that when I have tried to compile something (for example, the latest Wine SRPM) that it has been crashing with a file not found error. I have narrowed the problem down to the fact that /usr/src/linux is not in the path, or include path, or

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Chris Spencer
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 15:55, you wrote: Do you have the kernel source code in a directory with a name similar to /usr/src/linux-2.2.xx or do you have the source for the kernel stored elsewhere? You need that directory tree (and its files) somewhere. Then you need to make a link from

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Ronnie Whipp
Chris Spencer wrote: Argh. I feel dumb. I just did a clean install of 7.2. I noticed that when I have tried to compile something (for example, the latest Wine SRPM) that it has been crashing with a file not found error. I have narrowed the problem down to the fact that /usr/src/linux is

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Michael Barnhill
Why do you need /usr/src/linux in the $PATH? Chances are the files that are missing are in some devel package. Do a web search for the missing file and see what package it looks like it is in. You can always check rpmfind.net for the most up to date package and build that *.src.rpm or install

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Chris Spencer
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 19:57, you wrote: Why do you need /usr/src/linux in the $PATH? Chances are the files that are missing are in some devel package. Do a web search for the missing file and see what package it looks like it is in. You can always check rpmfind.net for the most up

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
go into the makefile and add /usr/src/linux.. maybe its looking at /src/linux or something.. remember that the directory structure has changed a bit with 7.2.. now its FSH complient. -sarang On Tuesday 31 October 2000 17:22, you wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2000 15:55, you wrote: Do you