"Bart Szyszka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Alec Smith wrote: >> Actually, /usr/src/linux is the default -- Linus ships the tree in a >> format to go in a directory called linux. > >I don't use any "shipping" version of Linux.
I think Alec meant the kernel tarballs. >> In general, you want to symlink /usr/src/linux to the actual location of >> your kernel sources. > >Why? Most instructions expect the kernel source to be in /usr/src/linux, so that way is easier for newbies. If it's just a symlink then all you need to do to unpack a tarball is remove the symlink, unpack, rename the created directory to something else (like linux-2.2.15), and drop the symlink back in again. Things end up at their most consistent that way, I think. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
