linux kernel help on Redhat 8

tonicnote · 05-02-2003, 10:42 AM

Hey all, please help im going nuts. I trying to add my first patch and the instructions say i need to go to /usr/src/linux-2.14...but i don't have that directory i have /usr/src/redhat/blah blah blah....okay.....now i read somewhere that i need to install it from cdrom... but when i try to the rpm package tells me it already exists....what do i do??? im trying to patch so i can configure rio500 to work...help!!!!

nxny · 05-02-2003, 01:01 PM

Go to www.kernel.org and download the latest stable kernel sources(bz2). If your patch is for an older version of the kernel, download that version. bunzip2, untar (tar jxvf, in one step) into /usr/src/

Create a symlink 'linux' to point to 'linux-x.xx.xx' . Apply your patch.

My /usr/src looks like this.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 10 22:19 linux -> linux-2.4.20/
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4.0K Apr 23 13:19 linux-2.4.20/