Chris A. Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to upgrade to 2.4.19 kernel and compile it myself to perhaps get more things >working. I installed the source code from Debian CD's for 2.4.18 and downloaded a >2.4.19 patch from kernel.org. When I applied the patch, I got a zillion FAILED >messages, apparently because Debians version of the source code has been heavily >patched and modified already. How can I get clean source code to patch?? >Downloading the entire source code (over 30M) on my dialup is problematic. Would it >help to just compile 2.4.18 as I have it or would that give me what I already have >again? I'm a little frustrated from weeks of just trying to get Debian functional.
That's because you installed the kernel-source binary package which is only meant to be used to build *Debian* kernel images. To get back to the pristine source from a binary package without downloading the whole thing, download the diff file for that kernel-source package with apt-get --diff-only, and apply it with patch -R. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
