Using sort of a scatter-gun (maybe scatter-brained?) approach to the problem of booting a USB drive, I've managed to install a base Debian file system to the USB drive. Yes, the new beta Sarge installer gave me the option of installing the system there. Booting is, as has been alluded in the earlier booting from USB exchange on this list, another matter. Since the system is meant to use the 2.4.25-1-386 kernel, I've decided I should try and compile that kernel with the root file system mounting delay patch we've spoken about. But, I've gotten stuck at the patching phase. I'm actually using directions for patching a 2.4.23 kernel that I found on another USB booting site ( http://www.freewebs.com/tsj/bootingUSB_ldp_v0.1.htm ) that suggests applying the patch to do_mounts.c . When I try to apply the patch using the directions found at that site, I get the following:
[11:39:[EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel-source-2.4.25$ patch -p0 <kernel2-4-25patch patching file init/do_mounts.c patch: **** malformed patch at line 5: static void __init mount_root(void) [11:40:[EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel-source-2.4.25$ The file do_mounts.c appears to have been unmodified. Can anyone clue me in as to where the problem lies and how I might get the patch to apply after all? Thanks, James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
